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Effects of Neighborhood’s Built Environment on Physical Activities in Gated Communities: A Review

International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, 2016
The emergence of gated communities throughout the world has generated significant academic interest. Several studies have been carried out that can be found in the body of literature, which have attempted to investigate the various aspects of life within
Yasmeen Gul, Zahid Sultan, Foziah Johar
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Manifestations of Urban Fragmentation related to the Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Municipality of Zinacantepec, state of Mexico, 1990-2012

Revista de Urbanismo, 2018
The proliferation of gated communities in the Metropolitan Area of the city of Toluca, in Mexico, was observed as of the 1990s. The municipalities of Toluca, Metepec and Zinacantepec were the ones who received the largest number of Gated Communities in ...
Yadira Contreras Juárez, Octavio Castillo Pavón, Anahí Sánchez González   +2 more
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Gated communities : ein Vergleich privatisierter Wohnsiedlungen in Südkalifornien [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
Gated Communities stellen eine Extremform der Privatisierung öffentlicher Räume dar, verbunden mit einer radikalen Veränderung der Stadtlandschaft. Insbesondere in Räumen wie Südkalifornien ist eine hohe Konzentration dieser Wohnform auszumachen.
M. Gmünder, N. Grillon, K. Bucher
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The demystification of gating

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2009
Gated residential developments, neighbourhoods to which public access is restricted, continue to generate academic, policymaker and public curiosity. In a recent paper in the EJSD Tony Manzi and Bill Smith-Bowers (2006) attempt to provide what they see ...
Zoltán Cséfalvay
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Gated communities: Definitions, causes and consequences [PDF]

, 2010
Gated communities became an 'object of study' in the 1990s as social scientists observed their growth in several cities; they are now a feature of the urban landscape in most cities around the world. The expansion of gated communities has led to prolific
Alvarez M. J., Amin A., Arizaga C., Ballent A., Beall J., Blakely E. J., Cabrales Barajas L. F., Caldeira TPdR, Dammert L., Dou Q., Foldvary F., Janoschka M., Judd D. R., Landman K., Lemanski C., Low S., Low S. M., McKenzie E., Roitman S., Rojas P., S. Roitman, Sabatini F., Sabatini F., Sassen S., Sassen S., Smith Bowers B., Svampa M., Svampa M., Thuillier G., Webster C.   +29 more
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Spatial Characterization and Mapping of Gated Communities

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
The increase in gated communities is the most important recent urban phenomenon in Latin America. This article proposes a methodology to identify the morphological features and spatial characteristics of gated communities to map them based on the land ...
Agnes Silva de Araujo, Alfredo Pereira de Queiroz   +1 more
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The safety Dilemma of Gated Communities in Turkey: How Borders Threaten Safe Space Formation in Neighbourhoods

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2023
The production of safe spaces in neighbourhood areas is a challenge for the rapid urbanization in Turkey. The way of providing safety in housing areas has been ensured in the form of designing gated communities as clusters.
Hatice KALFAOĞLU HATİPOĞLU
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Analysis of The Environmental Effects of Gated Communities on the Neighborhood in the Context of Environmental Stress

Megaron, 2015
In this study, as part of the phenomenon of urban segregation, gated residential communities are discussed in the context of environmental stress. Gated communities, whose theoretical infrastructure is tried to be understood through political economy ...
Asiye Akgün Gültekin, Alper Ünlü
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Gated communities in England : rules and rhetoric of urban planning [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
The number of private gated developments continues to grow in Britain, in apparent contradiction to the government's urban policy aims of developing balanced, sustainable, mixed communities.
S. Blandy, D. Parsons
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Gated Communities – by product of the lack of trust? [PDF]

, 2017
Gated communities are housing areas that have been enclosed in one way or another, typically involving heavy use of surveillance technology (see Addington & Rennison, 2015).
Waszkiewicz, Pawel
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