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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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Burglaries and entry controls in gated communities
This article examines whether different levels of entry controls impact burglary rates in gated communities. It differs from the previous studies that only distinguish gated communities from non-gated communities but ignore important variation in different levels of entry controls. A sample of 698 gated communities in a large Chinese city are selected for this study. A negative binomial regression model estimates the relationships between entry control levels and burglary rates in gated communities. The test of these relationships accounts for the control of other important explanatory variables, including management fee, building height, building age, housing price, house for sale, rental house and floating population. Results indicate that higher entry control levels are associated with significantly lower burglary rates in gated communities. This is the first study that reveals a quantitative relationship between burglary and entry control level in gated communities at the city-wide scale.
本文研究了不同级别的进入控制是否会影响门禁社区的入室盗窃率。本研究与以前的研究不同，以前的研究只区分门禁社区和非门禁社区，忽略了不同进入控制水平的重要差异。本研究选取了中国一个大城市的698个门禁社区作为样本。我们用一个负二项回归模型估计了门禁社区的进入控制水平与入室盗窃率之间的关系。这些关系的检验考虑了对其他重要解释变量的控制，包括管理费、建筑高度、建筑年限、房价、待售房屋、出租屋和流动人口。结果表明，较高的进入控制水平与门禁社区中较低的入室盗窃率相关。这是第一个在城市范围内揭示门禁社区进入控制水平与入室盗窃之间定量关系的研究。
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