Adriana Cobo Corey

Mending Privately Owned Public Spaces

Works on Taste and Spatial Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781032877525
• ISBN-10: 1032877529
• Artikelnr.: 75011152

Autorenporträt

Adriana Cobo Corey is an architect and academic with a doctorate in spatial practice. Her research interests cut across performance, taste and class in architecture, urban design and education. She is a subject leader on ethical practice for BA Architecture at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Wider Context: POPS in NY, Hong Kong, Ahmedabad and Bogotá
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