Gated Communities
International Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 4. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-0-415-46379-9 (ISBN)
Description
This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.
While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa, Latin and North America, it is also clear that there is now significant interest in gated living in the European and East Asian urban context. The chapters in this book investigate issues and communities such as:
gated communities in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina
planning responses to gated communities in Canada
who segregates whom? The analysis of a gated community in Mendoza, Argentina
sprawl and social segregation in southern California.
These illustrative chapters enable the reader to understand more about the social and economic forces that have lead to gating, the ways in which gated communities are managed, and their wider effects on both residents and those living outside the gates.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Housing Studies.
While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa, Latin and North America, it is also clear that there is now significant interest in gated living in the European and East Asian urban context. The chapters in this book investigate issues and communities such as:
gated communities in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina
planning responses to gated communities in Canada
who segregates whom? The analysis of a gated community in Mendoza, Argentina
sprawl and social segregation in southern California.
These illustrative chapters enable the reader to understand more about the social and economic forces that have lead to gating, the ways in which gated communities are managed, and their wider effects on both residents and those living outside the gates.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Housing Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
343 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-46379-9 (9780415463799)
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Chapter 1 Constructing The Pomerium in Las Vegas: A Case Study of Emerging Trends in American Gated Communities, EVAN McKENZIE; Chapter 2 Homeowners Associations, Collective Action and the Costs of Private Governance, SIMON C.Y. CHEN, CHRIS J. WEBSTER; Chapter 3 Some Reflections on the Economic and Political Organisation of Private Neighbourhoods, GEORG GLASZE; Chapter 4 Rediscovering the 'Gate' Under Market Transition: From Work-unit Compounds to Commodity Housing Enclaves, FULONG WU; Chapter 5 Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning, GUY THUILLIER; Chapter 6 Planning Responses to Gated Communities in Canada, JILL GRANT; Chapter 7 Gated Communities: (Ne)Gating Community Development?, SARAH BLANDY, DIANE LISTER; Chapter 8 Who Segregates Whom? The Analysis of a Gated Community in Mendoza, Argentina, SONIA ROITMAN; Chapter 9 Gated Communities: Sprawl and Social Segregation in Southern California, RENAUD LE GOIX; Chapter 10 Gated Communities as Club Goods: Segregation or Social Cohesion?, TONY MANZI, BILL SMITH-BOWERS;