When we asked people at Grosvenor to nominate their favourite public spaces, many suggested parks – sanctuaries from dense urbanism where, as Stuart Murray (Grosvenor Australia Asia Pacific) put it: “you can escape the claustrophobia of the city, the people, the weather: all great cities should have a Hyde Park.”
However, there were also less obvious suggestions, such as the crowded Cairo Muslim quarter and the new look Buenos Aires river bank.
Here we illustrate some of our favourite public spaces in countries in which Grosvenor has operations.