1st Edition
Mending Privately Owned Public Spaces Works on Taste and Spatial Practice
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
Biography
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.
"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 Mínguez 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
