Translations:Beaches & Waterfront Areas/5/en

Waterfront areas are also strongly seasonal. A stretch of coast that feels busy and social in August may be empty and isolated in November. The same physical location can therefore carry very different social dynamics depending on the time of year, the hour of the day and how far one moves from the main access points.

| Social=People often describe waterfront spaces as unusually easy environments for low-pressure social contact. The setting is open, there is no entry cost, nobody is obliged to stay, and departure requires no explanation. Compared with venues that have a defined door and a defined purpose, a beach places very little structure on an interaction, which some find freeing and others find ambiguous.