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Perspectives of gated communities’ socio-spatial integration: the case of post-socialist Lithuania

open access: yesBelgeo, 2018
as a new style of residential development, gated communities appear to be a reflection of territorial and social segregation in the suburbs of post-socialist cities.
Simona Balčaitė, Dovilė Krupickaitė
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Gated Communities and Homogeneity in Las Vegas and Phoenix [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Site internet de la conférence / conference website : http://gated.parisgeo.cnrs.frSite internet du réseau de recherche international private urban governance : http://www.gated-communities.deInternational audienceIn this paper we use geographically ...
Le Goix, Renaud, Vesselinov, Elena
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A narrative review of gated communities and the transformative social impact in Middle Eastern Cities

open access: yesUrban, Planning and Transport Research
The 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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Change and continuity: a morphological investigation of the creation of gated communities in post-reform Beijing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Alongside the socio-economic restructuring from a central planning system to a free market system, Beijing is being transformed into a “gated city of tomorrow” by building massive gated communities as a new form of private neighborhood planning and ...
Dou, Q.
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Gated communities in South Africa: the case of Featherbrooke [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities (Dept. of Political Studies), 2012South Africa has seen a number of profound structural, social and political changes since the end of apartheid.
Johannes, Liezemarie
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Walls, enclaves and the (counter) politics of design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper focuses on the political role of urban design in the transformation of urban and rural, central and peripheral, formal and informal landscapes in Israel.
Danzig, S, Ventura, J, Yacobi, H
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The impact of gated Communities on property values: evidence of changes in real estate markets -Los Angeles, 1980-2000

open access: yesCybergeo, 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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Gated communities from the perspective of developers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Gated housing areas have increasingly become a profitable segment in the real estate market as well as a new marketing angle for developers to meet the demand for security, status/prestige, and lifestyle.
Baycan-Levent, Tüzin   +1 more
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Enclosurotopias: A Heterotopian Simulation of Reality

open access: yesProceedings 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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Impacts of Gated Communities on Residential Property Values: A Comparison of ONIPETESI Estate and Its Neighbourhoods in IKEJA, Lagos State, Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There has been a considerable growth of interest in recent years surrounding the emergence of gated communities. This study examined the impact of gated communities on residential property values by comparing Onipetesi Estate and Idi-Mangoro ...
Ajibola, M. O.   +2 more
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