Gated Communities - International Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy Klappentext This volume draws on recent accounts of gated communities to consider their growth, governance and their wider impacts in terms of crime, anti-social behaviour, citizenship and the privatization of public spaces. Zusammenfassung This volume draws on recent accounts of gated communities to consider their growth, governance and their wider impacts in terms of crime, anti-social behaviour, citizenship and the privatization of public spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Constructing The Pomerium in Las Vegas: A Case Study of Emerging Trends in American Gated Communities, EVAN McKENZIE; Chapter 2 Homeowners Associations, Collective Action and the Costs of Private Governance, SIMON C.Y. CHEN, CHRIS J. WEBSTER; Chapter 3 Some Reflections on the Economic and Political Organisation of Private Neighbourhoods, GEORG GLASZE; Chapter 4 Rediscovering the 'Gate' Under Market Transition: From Work-unit Compounds to Commodity Housing Enclaves, FULONG WU; Chapter 5 Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning, GUY THUILLIER; Chapter 6 Planning Responses to Gated Communities in Canada, JILL GRANT; Chapter 7 Gated Communities: (Ne)Gating Community Development?, SARAH BLANDY, DIANE LISTER; Chapter 8 Who Segregates Whom? The Analysis of a Gated Community in Mendoza, Argentina, SONIA ROITMAN; Chapter 9 Gated Communities: Sprawl and Social Segregation in Southern California, RENAUD LE GOIX; Chapter 10 Gated Communities as Club Goods: Segregation or Social Cohesion?, TONY MANZI, BILL SMITH-BOWERS;

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• Authors: Rowland (University of Sheffield Atkinson, Rowland Blandy Atkinson
• Assisted by: Rowland Atkinson (Editor), Atkinson Rowland (Editor), Sarah Blandy (Editor), Blandy Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2007
• EAN: 9780415463799
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46379-9
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Civil engineering, surveying and building