Mending Privately Owned Public Spaces: Works on Taste and Spatial Practice [Hardcover]

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Wider Context:? POPS in NY, Hong Kong, Ahmedabad and Bogot??

Chapter 2. A Deeper Insight: Granary Square in London and the Codes and Practices of Contemporary Public Space?

Chapter 3. Men of Taste: Habitus and Recodification in Design Practice

Chapter 4. Taste Untold: The Spider, The Bird and Other Stories of Contemporary Public Space

Conclusions

Annex: Notes on Practice-Led Research & Methodology and Research Diagrams for Researchers

This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefully managed aesthetic codes.?

Through the simple act of looking through a window, Adriana Cobo Corey invites us to reflect on the often-overlooked, everyday actions that shape the life of the city. Focusing on Granary Square as a case of privately owned public space, she examines cleaning routines not only as functional tasks but?also?as choreographed performances that reveal the deeper politics of maintenance, labour, visibility, and control involved in the production of contemporary urban space.

Carlos M?nguez Carrasco, Chief Curator at ArkDes and co-editor of Bodybuildings: Architecture and Performance

Countering the invisibilization of privately owned public space in architectural practice, this important book critically unpacks the aesthetic norms of privatization.

Elke Krasny, Co-Editor of Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet

This book is motivated by a simple observation: Privately Owned Public Sl³r