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

This book is motivated by a simple observation: Privately Owned Public Spaces, or POPS, are overlooked sites when it comes to exploring the subject of taste in architecture and urban design. The book unpacks the intricate world that unfolds from this thought, while arguing that taste is a missing key in current spatial practice discourse. Successful POPS are often presented as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects in cities across the world. This perception often overshadows, ...