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Urban sustainability assessment of DHA City, Karachi (DCK) – Pakistan: A methodological approach combining urban form indicators with stakeholders’ perspectives

Journal of Urban Management
This paper proposes a Sustainability Assessment for the social, economic, and environmental evaluation of gated housing projects, corresponding to the indicators of accessibility, connectivity, compatibility, nodality and containment, identity, diversity,
Hira Qureshi
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The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25: Cause for Celebration and Renewed Resolve [PDF]

, 2015
In this report, we review the progress our nation has made since the historic enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. We highlight the critical role that P&As have in enforcing the ADA integration mandate, protecting and ...
Elizabeth Priaulx
core  

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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Vom Zentrum an die Peripherie und wieder zurück. Eine kritische Reflexion über die städtischen Distinktionspraktiken der alten Istanbuler Elite

Sub\urban, 2015
Einst ein heißes Thema der Stadtforschung, geriet die Diskussion um die Gated Community mittlerweile in Vergessenheit. Die Gated Community selbst schert sich allerdings wenig um die neuesten Trends der wissenschaftlichen Wissensproduktion.
Katharina Sucker
doaj  

Safety Perceptions and Micro-Segregation: Exploring Gated- and Non-Gated-Community Dynamics in Quetta, Pakistan

Land
Crime impacts residential neighborhoods not only through the loss of life and property but also by instilling a widespread fear among residents. To combat this fear, physical security measures like safety locks, gates, and high perimeter walls have ...
Asifa Iqbal, Tahira Shaukat, Humaira Nazir   +2 more
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Residents’ sense of belonging in (gated) communities in urban China

PlaNext
Communities or neighborhoods are specific places in the research field of place identity that links between environment and psychology to address the sense of belonging as one of crucial human needs.
Meiling Jin
doaj  

Satisfaction with Nighttime Outdoor Activity Environment Among Elderly Residents in Old Gated Communities

Buildings
China, like many other countries around the world, faces a rapidly aging population. “Aging in place” is the most popular choice for older people in China, with more than 90% of urban older people living in the same residential areas they did in middle ...
Fang Wen, Liang Peng, Bo Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yuyang Zhang   +4 more
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Utopia or the Anti-Tahrir. The worst of all worlds in the fiction of A. K. Towfik

EchoGéo, 2019
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
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Gated Communities in the Socio-spatial Segregation Process: The Istanbul Case

Megaron, 2009
Gated communities are a forerunner in the new form of urbanization emerging in Istanbul. Among the main factors affecting this urbanization process are the new elites, new lifestyles and the demand for physically-secured housing settlements. Triggered by
Senem KOZAMAN SOM, Evrim ÖZKAN TÖRE
doaj  

Preferensi Atas Perumahan Berpagar di Wilayah Jabodetabek

Tataloka
Perkembangan perumahan berpagar di wilayah metropolitan Jabodetabek terlihat dari tingginya permintaan atas hal tersebut. Namun, perumahan berpagar mencerminkan bentuk segregasi spasial yang berkontribusi terhadap segregasi sosial yang makin meluas. Tren
Gita Safitri, Hanny Wahidin Wiranegara, Yayat Supriyatna   +2 more
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