Gated Communities and Property Fencing: A Response to Residential Neighbourhood Crime

Olajide, Sunday Emmanuel; Lizam, Mohd

doi:10.9734/bjesbs/2016/21796

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“…Territoriality referring to the design concept that delineates a private space such as residential area from public space which can be freely access by anyone and this will create a sense of ownership among the residents within that residential area [44,45,49]. Gateway can be installed at the entrance of the residential area while constructing walls to segregate the area as private space that is less vulnerable to burglary [29,39,40,47]. As additional, it also includes symbolic barriers such as the signage, subtle changes in road texture and real barriers [2,19,22,35].…”

Section: Iii) Territorialitymentioning

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“…Nowadays, crime rate in residential neighborhood which including the burglary and theft, incivility, street crime, vandalism and robbery are ordinary to be reported in Malaysia [39]. According to Ghani [24] , the rapid social change and expanding cities would be the hotbeds of crimes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Olajide and Lizam [38] 's work, secure homes can be known as a new form of residential space with restricted access where a space with territory is restricted from the public. This can be done by putting walls or fences around the designated perimeters where the entrances are controlled by gates and security guards.…”

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Secure Homes Criteria in Malaysian Houses: A Systematic Literature Review

Jing

Ismail²,

Yee³

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The crime rate in Malaysia in increasing in every year, especially in the high-density residential area. This has brought the increase of awareness and concern on the security issues in the residential area from the residents. Thus, secure homes’ concept seems to become a dominant feature of Malaysian housing development projects today as it can improve the security criteria. However, people are still living in the fear of crime, especially in the urban areas due to the ineffectiveness of the crime prevention approaches. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the current practices of secure homes’ development and to evaluate their impacts. 129 relevant articles published between 2011 to 2020 have been collected to go through systematic literature review. The results show publications concerning on secure homes is having an exponential growth. Next, the findings showed that there are tangible criteria and intangible criteria that can reduce the crime rate significantly. The tangible criteria are surveillance, access control, territoriality and target hardening while the intangible criteria include the sense of community, and management and maintenance. The findings of this study further show that there were enough practical and theoretical proofs attesting to the desirability of secure homes as a veritable tool in residential neighborhood crime prevention. The results of this study can be used as the fundamental to develop a more effective and efficient crime prevention approach that not only apply the conventional approach but consider integrating current technologies which can greatly reduce the fear of crime.

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Section: Iii) Territorialitymentioning

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Secure Homes Criteria in Malaysian Houses: A Systematic Literature Review

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Ismail²,

Yee³

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“…Precieze cijfers over het totaalaantal gated communities wereldwijd ontbreken. Reden hiervoor is dat er geen eenduidige definitie wordt gehanteerd van een gated community (Olajide & Lizam 2016). Ook ontbreken betrouwbare tellingen in talrijke landen waar gated communities voorkomen, bijvoorbeeld in Zuid-Afrika en in landen in Zuid-Amerika.…”

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Afgeschermd wonen in Nederland: een studie naar waarom mensen hiervoor kiezen en hoe zij omgaan met interne regelgeving

Schuilenburg¹,

Steden²

2015

Tijdschrift Voor Veiligheid

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“…Several authors have used different approaches to investigate the gating reasons for parts of the population [4,8,24,27,30]. However, few studies have contributed methods to analyze their morphological and physical characteristics or provided alternatives to map GC.…”

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Spatial Characterization and Mapping of Gated Communities

Araujo

Filho

2018

IJGI

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The increase in gated communities is the most important recent urban phenomenon in Latin America. This article proposes a methodology to identify the morphological features and spatial characteristics of gated communities to map them based on the land cover map and the quality of life index. The importance of this proposal is related to the fact that there are no official statistics on gated communities in most Latin American countries. The proposal was tested in Marília, a medium-sized city in southeastern Brazil. Geographic object-based image analysis with high-resolution satellite images and 2010 demographic census variables were used to support the research procedures. The accuracy of the output was 83.3%. It was found that there is a positive correlation between the quality of life index and the occurrence of high-standard gated communities (golden ghettos). They were mainly identified by the following land cover classes: white painted concrete slabs/light-colored roof tiles, and the existence of pavement, pools, and herbaceous vegetation. In addition to mapping the gated communities, it was possible to classify them according to the categories proposed in the literature (golden ghettos and lifestyle gated communities).

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Gated Communities and Property Fencing: A Response to Residential Neighbourhood Crime

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Secure Homes Criteria in Malaysian Houses: A Systematic Literature Review

Secure Homes Criteria in Malaysian Houses: A Systematic Literature Review

Afgeschermd wonen in Nederland: een studie naar waarom mensen hiervoor kiezen en hoe zij omgaan met interne regelgeving

Spatial Characterization and Mapping of Gated Communities

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