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What is beyond the edges? Gated communities and their role in China’s desire for harmonious cities [PDF]
City, Territory and Architecture, 2020 During the rapid process of urbanization in post-reform China, cities assumed the role of a catalyst for economic growth and quantitative construction.
Badiaa Hamama, Jian Liu
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Why people choose gated communities: A case study of Alexandria metropolitan area
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2018 Nowadays, the prevailing housing development trend is gated communities. This trend has been one of the most widespread pattern of development in the last quarter of the twentieth century across the globe as well as in Egypt.
Nesma Mohamed Salah, Hany M. Ayad
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers)
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2008 Gated residential developments, neighbourhoods to which public access is restricted, continue to generate academic, policymaker and public curiosity. Why do people want to live in these places and should public interventions be directed towards either ...
Rowland Atkinson
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Geography Compass, 2008 Abstract This article examines the notion of gated communities and, more generally, privately governed urban neighbourhoods. We do this by reviewing the idea that they are an innovative built‐environment genre that has spread globally from a diverse set of roots and influences. These include the mass growth of private urban government
Le Goix, Renaud, Webster, Chris
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Genius Logi: Towards the Phenomenology of Gated Community
DEPARCH Journal of Design Planning and Aesthetics Research, 2022 Gated communities have emerged in the world for reasons such as increased fear of crime, security, prestige, desire to be different. In Turkey gated communities have emerged because of neoliberal policies that promotes high-income segment seeking ...
Özlem Yıldız, Havva Alkan Bala
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Buildings, 2022 Managing common property in gated communities is challenging. Although numerous studies have demonstrated that there are several determinants of collective action effectiveness and performances in gated communities, empirical research drawing on a ...
Xuerui Shi, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling
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Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022 Despite having roots through history, gated communities have emerged as a new urban phenomenon facing the effects of urbanization. They became a dominant typology for achieving better quality of life (QOL), especially in Greater Cairo Region (GCR).
Doaa K. Hassan +2 more
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An Initiative to Achieve Sustainability Criteria in New Gated Communities in Egypt [PDF]
Port Said Engineering Research Journal, 2022 Gated communities are a modern urban phenomenon whose features vary according to the economic, social and urban content through criteria and indicators to achieve sustainability, as it has become a global goal that all countries seek to achieve. They are
Marwa ElAdham +2 more
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New Trends and Socio-Spatial Relations in Gated Communities
Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020 This study focuses on the socio-spatial relationship constructed in gated communities. Great urban transformation has been observed in the urban life during the second half of the 20th century. Transformation in this period changed urban space as well as
Levent Taş, Esra Burcu Sağlam
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Gated communities in Bahrain: historical and urban geographies [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2021 Residential gating is a notable element in cities worldwide, but notable gaps exist in studies of residential gating in smaller cities and the Global South. This article examines the historical and urban geographies of residential gating in the Arab Gulf,
Zia Salim
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