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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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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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Gated communities [PDF]

, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p.
Wong, Chin-ho, Thomas, 黃展皓
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Urban fragments or fractals of resilience? A systematic review of empirical cases of gated communities in Accra, Ghana

World Development Sustainability
The development of gated communities within the urban realm in Ghana has become a major concern for urban planning and governance. As an aspect of the broader urban system, gated communities have a preponderant effect on the urban fabric and the ...
Raymond Aitibasa Atanga, Mengmeng Xu, Asaah Sumaila Mohammed, Belinda Bonney   +3 more
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A typology of gated communities in US Western Metropolitan Areas -- working paper [PDF]

, 2012
This working paper investigates the social dimensions of gated communities in US western metropolitan areas, and investigates their contribution to segregation patterns at the metropolitan level.
Le Goix, Renaud, Vesselinov, Elena
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Private military and security companies, territoriality and the transformation of western security governance [PDF]

, 2012
The field of security governance holds a special place within the context of the debate over the diffusion of power from state to non-state actors, from national to international authorities and from governments to markets in Western democracies.
Krahmann, E
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Combining retrofitting techniques, renewable energy resources and regulations for residential buildings to achieve energy efficiency in gated communities

Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022
This paper presents a multi-objective method of analysing the energy efficiency associated with upper class houses in Gated Communities in Arid Zones. The application of building energy regulations has an impact on improving energy efficiency.
Bassent Adly, Tamir El-Khouly
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The promised territories: the production of branded housing projects in contemporary Turkey [PDF]

, 2016
Cities in Turkey, following the neoliberal restructuring of the country, have undergone a process of transformation in the last decade at a greater pace than experienced in previous periods.
Serin, Bilge
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Gated communities entrench social segregation in suburban communities which are already racially similar. [PDF]

, 2016
Do gated communities contribute to increased segregation in urban areas? While the answer almost seems self-evident, there is very little empirical data available to actually measure their effect in metropolitan areas.
Le Goix, Renaud, Vesselinov, Elena
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