Gated Communities

Goix, Renaud Le; Webster, Chris

doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00118.x

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“…Another important consideration in addressing the real costs of contractual governance is the financial sustainability of various private neighbourhood institutions. Many gated communities built in the 1960s and 70s around the world are now suffering from chronic underinvestment and ageing infrastructure (le Goix, 2004;Webster & le Goix, 2005;le Goix & Webster 2008). This is less of a fundamental finding however since modern contracts make better provision for re-investment funds (often under the influence of government regulation).…”

Section: Gated Communities and Institutional Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Sympathy for the city as a hotel thesis can be found in the libertarian writings of Spencer Heath MacCallum (1970) and Fred Foldvary (1994) for example. Less extreme protagonists are those who see in gated communities and the Home Owner Associations and condominium institutions that organize them, the possibility of neighbourhood level contractual territorial government (Nelson, 1999;Webster, 2001Webster, , 2002Webster, , 2005Lee & Webster, 2006;Chen & Webster, 2005;le Goix & Webster, 2008). Between the extremes are a range of views about the relative efficiency of contractual versus political governance.…”

Section: Gated Communities and Institutional Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Methodological Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Research on Gated Communities

Roitman

Webster

Landman

2010

International Planning Studies

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The paper examines gated communities as an object of study that has received intense scholarly attention from diverse disciplines over the last 10 years. The many conference presentations and published papers on the subject have not, however, always contributed to a cohesive body of knowledge. We suggest in this paper that clearer frameworks for empirical investigations are needed; not only for specific disciplines, but also for providing an interdisciplinary perspective. The paper focuses on methodology: first highlighting three different approaches to the analysis of urban fragmentation (social, spatial and institutional); and second, outlining a framework for interdisciplinary analysis. In the latter part, we illustrate the connections that may be made between the analyses of the social, spatial and institutional fragmentation effects and causes of gated communities and suggest ways of handling phenomenological as well as linguistic complexity in this multi-disciplinary area of urban scholarship.

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Section: Gated Communities and Institutional Fragmentationmentioning

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Section: Gated Communities and Institutional Fragmentationmentioning

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Methodological Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Research on Gated Communities

Roitman

Webster

Landman

2010

International Planning Studies

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“…Considering that, much earlier than Radburn, in both the United States and in Europe, there were already groups of single-family dwellings, endowed with distinct boundaries and accentuated by, for example, gated entrances and fenced perimeters (Le Goix & Webster, 2008). These developments experienced significant success with the well-to-do at the end of the 19th century.…”

Section: Residential Territories and Ad Hoc Management: The Case Of Rmentioning

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Cul-de-sacs, Superblocks and Environmental Areas as Supports of Residential Territorialization

Charmes

2010

Journal of Urban Design

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In the suburbs, residential territorialization is most often associated with common interest developments, homeowners' associations, gated communities and sociospatial segregation. These forms of territorialization have been the subject of many critical analyses by the academic community. These criticisms, however, frequently discount the significance of the road network layout. This paper shows that cul-de-sacs, superblocks and 'environmental areas' are key factors. It provides support to the hypothesis that exclusionary residential territories exist along a continuum, ranging from no-through streets, superblocks, environmental areas, gated communities and privately managed communities. The creation of two cul-de-sacs facing each other can thus be compared to the erection of a barrier in the middle of a street open to through-traffic. Similarly, environmental areas function as residential enclaves.

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“…Such cultural analysis of the emergence of gated communities is rare. Most research focuses on the spatial, institutional, economic, and social dimensions of gated communities, such as explaining their proliferation, arguing about their social effects, and discussing their governance and planning (for a review, see Le Goix and Webster 2008). An important institutional argument, for example, is how homeownership is linked to a sense of belonging and governance participation through homeowners associations (e.g.…”

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Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou

Feng

Breitung

Hong

2014

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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This paper uses the concept of "home" to analyze recent urbanization processes in suburban China from a cultural geography perspective. Urban growth, land development, and human mobility have had great impacts not only on land use and the built environment, but also on people's concepts of identity and belonging. As the current Chinese leaders have turned to explicitly viewing urbanization also as a social project, we need to understand better how it works as a social and cultural process. While Chinese societies have always conceived of "home" as something very stable, we now see this concept challenged in two ways: by human mobility and by the transformation of the places themselves. Suburban Guangzhou is a case in point. There are three population groups -the residents of gated communities, villagers, and rural migrants -that are all displaced in different ways. They settle side by side at the fringes of a city which most of them do not fully consider as their home yet. Interesting in this situation are their competing and interrelated claims of home. Being local or migrant, rich or poor, and urban or rural people, each of these groups has different resources and different strategies to construct, reconstruct, and defend their sense of home in this transient and contested space. Based on many years of research in Guangzhou, the authors try to disentangle these strategies and resource configurations. One aspect receiving particular attention is the role of spatial boundaries and of processes of exclusion and inclusion in this context.

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Gated Communities

Cited by 80 publications

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Methodological Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Research on Gated Communities

Methodological Frameworks and Interdisciplinary Research on Gated Communities

Cul-de-sacs, Superblocks and Environmental Areas as Supports of Residential Territorialization

Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou

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