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Urban, Planning and Transport ResearchThe rise of gated communities in the Middle East is vastly spreading, driven by socioeconomic fluctuations and a desire for exclusivity. This article aims to contribute to the scholarly debates on the socio-spatial impacts of gated communities by ...
Ahmed Hammad, Mengbi Li, Zora Vrcelj
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GATED COMMUNITIES AS A SYMBOL OF INEQUALITY
TEME, 2023 This article takes the concept of gated communities to represent a special form of securitised housing, developed in the United States in the 20th century and popularised around the world in later years, and examines it as such. The neo-liberal society is an especially fertile ground for the development of this concept due to the unequal distribution ...
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Cybergeo, 2007 The paper focuses on how gated communities, as private means of providing public infrastructure and security, real estate products and club-economies, produce changes in housing market patterns.
Renaud Le Goix
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Enclosurotopias: A Heterotopian Simulation of Reality
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2020 Michel Foucault identifies heterotopias as forms of space that exists somewhere between reality and utopia. It’s real but does not serve or correspond to reality.
Taher Abdel-Ghani, Zeinab Tahoon
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La quintessence d’une ville privée. Le cas de Nordelta dans la municipalité de Tigre, Buenos Aires
L'Espace Politique, 2012 This study aims to analyze the consequences of the settlement and growth of gated communities in the metropolitan areas of Latin American cities. Previous studies on the phenomenon of gated communities have interpreted the appeal of this residential ...
Viviana Riwilis
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Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2021 An array of Egyptian and Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016.
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The storm that rocks the boat: the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability
Cybergeo, 2007 This paper is concerned with the impact and implications of gated communities on urban sustainability. This is investigated making use of an overarching methodological framework based on the internationally accepted Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (
Karina Landman
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2008 Gated communities are often referred to for what they seem to represent rather than for what they are – in fiction as well as in the theoretical discourse. They seem to embody the America Dream or the suburban nightmare at its climax.
Stéphane Degoutin
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Social Networking in the Neighbourhood: A Field Research in Istanbul
İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2015 This study discusses the life in the neighbourhoods stuck between the gated communities recently built in the district of Sancaktepe, in terms of neighbourliness and social networks in the neighbourhood.
Esra Köten
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Gated developments: international experiences and the South African context
Acta Academica, 2012 Gated developments, more commonly known as gated communities, have become a feature of urban living throughout the world. Gated developments in South African cities are an ubiquitous feature of the contemporary urban landscape with many new housing ...
Manfred Spocter
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