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Behind the Gates
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Setha Low is Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader ; Housing, Culture, and Design ; Cultural Spaces ; and Place Attachment.
\"Provocative and disturbing, this much-needed book holds up an unsparing mirror to an unsettling sign of our times.\" - The New York Times
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Ungating the city
China is seeking to prohibit the construction of any new gated communities and to gradually open existing schemes after three decades of growth of large-block gated estates. In this article, we use permeability analysis to explore the ‘what if?’ question posed by the policy: what if gated communities became permeable? We ask the question in respect of non-motorised access. We use two permeability metrics, closeness and betweenness, as outcome measures of gated and nongated versions of the city. We construct a bespoke complete pedestrian network, rather than using the road network, for our permeability modelling. Nanchang, a medium-sized Chinese city with widespread gated communities, is our study area. A series of permeability analyses with and without gated communities is conducted using GIS and spatial design network analysis (sDNA). On the basis of these analyses, we sequentially sort the gated compounds whose opening will maximise permeability gains with minimum expropriation of property rights through coercive ungating. We offer the analysis to urban scholars, planners and governments by way of a quantified simulation. This study and methodology, which is transferable without high data requirements, can assist urban practitioners in reconfiguring urban form to promote a healthier living environment (more walking) and more economically viable local service centres (greater pedestrian footfall concentrations).
中国经历三十年大片封闭式小区建设发展后，正试图禁止建设任何新的封闭小区，并在逐步打 开现有的封闭小区。本文运行渗透性分析来探讨这一政策带来的问题：如果封闭式小区变得可 渗透，会发生什么？我们从非机动通道的角度提出了问题。文章采用亲密度和中间度这两项渗 透性指标，作为衡量封闭型和非封闭型城市不同结果的指标。我们构建了一个定制的完整行人 网络进行渗透性建模，而不是使用道路网络。研宄对象是中国南昌这个到处拥有封闭式小区的 中型城市。我们运用 GIS 和空间设计网络分析（sDNA)对封闭式小区和非封闭式小区开展了一 系列渗透性分析。在这些分析的基础上，我们排列整理了那些将通过开放而最大程度提高渗透 性，同时最小程度因强制开放而侵占产权的封闭式综合体。通过量化模拟的方式，这些分析可供 城市研宄学者、规划者和政府所用。本项研宄和相关的方法无需高标准数据即可移用，可以帮助 城市实践者重新布局城市形态，以促进更健康的生活环境（更多步行）和更具经济可行性的地方 服务中心建设（更大的步行聚集度）。
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Beachside : Windsor architecture and design
\"Tropical living at its most chic. The planned community of Windsor, on a barrier island in Vero Beach, Florida, offers elegant-yet-casual seaside living at its best. This sublimely landscaped village, planned by the renowned New Urbanists Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, boasts houses by A-list architects and top interior designers, among them John Stefanidis, Steven Gambrel, and Alessandra Branca. The exteriors, Anglo-Caribbean in style, feature steeply pitched roofs, open eaves, cantilevered balconies, and palm-shaded courtyards and pools. The interiors, all executed with exquisite craftsmanship and appointed with fine finishes, range in style from traditional to sleekly contemporary. Beachside presents a wide array of the houses, organized by room. Filled with photographs of bougainvillea-framed entrances, airy open-plan living-dining rooms, cozy studies, and bedrooms that open onto balconies with sweeping ocean views, Beachside will inspire anyone yearning for a stylish coastal life\"--Publisher's description.
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A narrative review of gated communities and the transformative social impact in Middle Eastern Cities
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 presenting a narrative review that synthesises findings from peer-reviewed articles in the Middle East and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The study suggests that residents of gated communities benefit from positive attributes, including security, lifestyle, and exclusivity. However, negative influences, including segregation and separation, extend beyond the walls, impacting the surrounding communities. This article argues that the spread of gated communities represents a trend of luxury and exclusivity for affluent individuals, largely driven by developers. It concludes that while gated communities offer several positive attributes, these benefits are limited to a specific group residing within their walls. Planners and policymakers are encouraged to leverage these benefits and incorporate them in future designs.
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The role of discourses in enacting neoliberal urbanism
Claims that neoliberalism has been shaping planning practice and the production of space abound in planning literature. In this article, neoliberalism is treated not only as a set of policies but also as an ideology that organizes a particular way of seeing and orients action accordingly. The article explores how a particular socially shared belief system (ideology) that is taken as common sense (naturalized) provides the basis for particular ways of talking (discourses) about planning and urban development that legitimize and justify certain actions while making alternative possibilities unthinkable. In this sense, the article focuses on ideology in action and provides an empirically grounded discussion that renders ideology visible. Thus, ideology emerges from the empirical case as an explanatory mechanism to make sense of the dominant discourse that legitimizes the proliferation of suburban gated communities in the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, in Brazil. The deconstruction of the discourse reveals content and structural properties that combine environmental concerns and neoliberal principles to turn potentially controversial practices into desirable outcomes. The ideological nature of the discourse is revealed when alternative ways of seeing and acting challenge its commonsensical and taken for granted claims. While simplifying complex relationships and rendering important elements invisible, the discourse appeals to a wide range of actors who hold different individual and professional values. Ultimately, this article offers insights into the mechanisms through which ideologies are manifested, reproduced, and materialized in planning practice.
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Close to death : a novel
\"In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's new and ingenious literary whodunnit, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Typology of planned housing in the city of Yogyakarta
This paper examined the planned housing in Yogyakarta City distributed in eight sub-districts, namely Umbulharjo, Tegalrejo, Wirobrajan, Mergangsan, Mantrijeron, Kotagede, Gondokusuman, and Jetis. Planned housing in Yogyakarta City can be classified into a gated community and a non-gated community. They were commonly identified based on the similarity and regularity of the buildings and the road network. The data was taken from their Building Permit (IMB; Izin Mendirikan Bangunan) from the year 2000 – 2019, Google Street View, Pleiades Satellite Imagery of Yogyakarta City in 2018, Google Map, and ArcMap base-map. Data analysis was undertaken by using satellite imagery, map interpretation, and quantitative analysis by using scoring technique to describe the score of typology. Most of the planned housing in Yogyakarta City are classified into Typology II, which had a medium-strength gated community characteristic. The typology was composed based on the physical-geographical and social-economic indicators. Most of them were more than 10 years old and were provided with walls/fences and portals to restrict outsiders’ access. The residents were classified into middle-class based on their social-economic status. Most of the planned housing in Yogyakarta have gated-community characteristics based on these features.
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