Beyond gated communities? Detachment and concentration in networked nodes of affluence in the city of Beirut

Alaily-Mattar, Nadia

doi:10.1057/udi.2008.30

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“…Exposure to others in that domain of life may be just as relevant as it is in the residential environment. In addition, we might want to scrutinise the way people get to and from their place of work, because the selected modes of transport may also vary in terms of the exposure to diversity it involves (see Alaily-Mattar, 2008;Wilson, 2011). We intend to expand the knowledge about diversity in all three domains in which people spend a large amount of time on a daily basis.…”

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Cocooning urban life: Exposure to diversity in neighbourhoods, workplaces and transport

Boterman

Musterd

2016

Cities

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Cocooning urban life: Exposure to diversity in neighbourhoods, workplaces and transport

Boterman

Musterd

2016

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“…While gated communities are rare in Beirut, and neighborhoods are generally mixed income especially in parts of the city where rental housing predominates, there is residential segregation along sectarian lines (Alaily‐Mattar 2008) 3 . Between 2004 and 2006 another type of spatial segregation became prominent.…”

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“…3 3 Alaily‐Mattar (2008) describes how the extension of rent control over pre‐1992 rent contracts slowed gentrification in Beirut and the mixed‐income character of neighborhoods with rental housing persisted. …”

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Being Mobile in Beirut

Monroe

2011

City &Amp; Society

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In this essay I examine two contexts of mobility in Beirut. First, I discuss navigations of security by Beirut's residents during the 2004–2006 period of political crisis. Second, I consider how talk about driving revealed interpretations of the state, national identity, and social class that engaged, in different ways, the notion of fowda (chaos). Through these contexts of mobility, I explore how power is constituted through spatial movement. I argue that mobility plays a critical role in processes of social differentiation in Beirut. Drawing on recent scholarship about security and spatial segregation, my research provides insight into class dimensions of Beirut's geography of difference and contributes to our understanding of the ways in which urban citizenship is produced through mobility.

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“…Building on studies of residential gating in the Middle East (Glasze & Alkhayyal, 2002;Kuppinger, 2004;Glasze, 2006;Geniş, 2007;Alaily-Mattar, 2008;Rosen & Razin 2008;Rosen & Grant 2011;Blander et al, 2018), this project seeks to: a) assess the historical roots of contemporary gated communities in Bahrain; b) situate gated communities within the city's contemporary urban geography. Residential land use comprises the largest single category of land use within an urban area.…”

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Gated communities in Bahrain: historical and urban geographies

Salim¹

2021

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Residential gating is a notable element in cities worldwide, but notable gaps exist in studies of residential gating in smaller cities and the Global South. This article examines the historical and urban geographies of residential gating in the Arab Gulf, using a case study from Bahrain. This research adds new nuance to studies of gated communities by presenting a case study from a smaller city in the Global South and integrating observations and interviews. The results explain the reasons for gated community development in Bahrain and provide insight into gated communities’ built and social environments in Bahrain. The article concludes that in ordinary cities, understanding urban development in general, and gated developments in particular, demands attention to their spatiotemporal contexts. Attention to these contexts can provide new insights that contribute to efforts to interpret and theorise contemporary urbanisation processes.

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Beyond gated communities? Detachment and concentration in networked nodes of affluence in the city of Beirut

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Cocooning urban life: Exposure to diversity in neighbourhoods, workplaces and transport

Cocooning urban life: Exposure to diversity in neighbourhoods, workplaces and transport

Being Mobile in Beirut

Gated communities in Bahrain: historical and urban geographies

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