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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Gated Communities"”.
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An exploration of two gated communities in Istanbul
… cities in Turkey have witnessed the emergence of gated communities a much debated issue in public opinion. This thesis is a comparative research, which distinguishes it methodologically from the rest of the Turkish literature. Contrary to the mainstream literature, I will show that gated …
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Gated communities in Lithuania: the problem of territorial integration /
… of territorial residential integration of gated communities (GCs) in Lithuania. The theoretical basis of the dissertation consists of two main theoretical directions: economic, represented by the club goods theory, and sociological, analyzed in the discourses of fear and power. The complex …
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Lifestyle Neighborhoods: The Semi-Exclusive World of Rental Gated Communities
This study looks at characteristics of rental gated communities in the United States from a national perspective and based on a case study of four Southwestern Counties, Riverside County and San Bernardino County in California, Maricopa County in Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada. Tenure …
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The Proliferation of Gated Communities in Ghana: A New Institutionalism Perspective
… 1980s, debates regarding the proliferation of gated communities have progressed from being US-centric to acknowledgement of an international research agenda. Despite their ubiquity globally, there is a dearth of empirical research about how developers of gated communities navigate the processes …
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The use of Cape vernacular architecture in gated communities in the Stellenbosch area
… contributes to the conversation about gated communities, which has become the fastest growing development sector in the post-apartheid South African city. It is a controversial form of development, due to the country’s history of residential segregation, and is regarded by many to …
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Street design, traffic, and fear of crime : moving from gated communities to transit villages
… dominated and dramatically fragmented by gated developments, which poses fundamental problems for the success of Tren Urbano. This thesis documents and explores the negative impacts of widespread gated communities on transit use and transit-conducive development, including inhibitions on …
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The Development and Management of Gated Communities in China: The Case of Shanghai from a New Institutionalist Perspective
Gated communities across the world have become a complex constellation, which have triggered new questions. For example, how do gated communities respond to ongoing urban transformation and changing regulatory environments? How are gated communities managed for long-term survival? How are the …
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Chinese gated community : degree of openness and the social impacts
Contemporary gated communities in China have only risen to prominence over the past two decades since the Housing Reform and market economy. Research on this field mainly criticize Chinese gated community on their negative social impacts by directly borrowing arguments from the studies of Western …
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The Olympics as a social opportunity : Integrated social housing in Rio de Janeiro
… walled themselves of from the city within their gated communities and the low income citizens are relegated to building on top of each other. This creates a spatial paradigm with relatively little in between. The thesis seeks to use the Olympics as an opportunity to begin reversing the spatial …
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Do place-based interventions displace crime in cities? : an evaluation of two crime prevention strategies in Chihuahua, Mexico
… first intervention considered here is that of gated communities, privately initiated responses that now house around a tenth of the total population of the city. The second intervention type studied centers on public sector initiatives. Here the thesis presents a spatial analysis of the …
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Version and subversion: Control versus reinscription and reappropriation in the postmodern landscape
… are an intrinsic feature of architectural plans. Gated communities and malls in particular provide working examples of such occurrences, expressing a trend towards monitored and commodified space which is not productive in supporting socially diverse communities. Consideration is given to how the …
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The commodification of community in residential real estate : the developer as community-builder for generation Y
… studies, as well as John Freie's critique of gated suburban communities, the study finds that developers frequently establish collective identity through strong branding; pursue social interaction through spaces modeled after retailers (e.g., Starbucks); and cater community to prospective …
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Growth and poverty in the urban fringe : decentralization, dispersion, and inequality in greater Buenos Aires
… Aires. It explains the cluster of affluent gated communities in the poorest municipalities of the urban periphery as the outcome of the special permits that these municipalities gave to real estate developers. Section II explains how national development policies have contributed to the …
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Collective urban block
… blocks of residential towers enclosed in gated communities that are detached from the city. Currently, Beijing has a migrant population of 8 million, who called themselves "Bei Piao", literally translated as "floating in Beijing". The exclusive policy to cap population and exorbitant …
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The Value of Urban Amenities: Analyzing the Changing Dynamics of Consumer Goods, Mobility, and Green Spaces in Cities
… the relationship between public green spaces and gated green spaces within residential complexes in Xiamen, China, and argue that in the process of rapid urbanization, local governments may delegate the responsibility of providing green spaces to private developers, leading to the prevalence of …
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Investigating and applying traditional urbanism principles to design a residential neighbourhood in Cairo
… simply centered on design practices that create gated communities, which implement models that are alien and unsustainable in the region and fragment the urban fabric of the society. There is an increasing need to consider more relevant and sustainable solutions for the design of new settlements …
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Destructive preservation : figuring the urban ground
… in this generation; from completely segregated stand-alone houses, to duplex houses, to gated communities, and finally moving a little bit into high-rise living. The project aims to push the slow transition into a faster trajectory towards a super-block mega-structure. Different people …
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Gated nature and its role in creating place attachment and place identity in post-apartheid South Africa: an analysis of Grotto Bay private residential estate
… its participants to move to a non-metropolitan gated community and focuses on the participants' experiences of life in gated nature. In analysing the participants' subjective experiences, this work aims to understand how such experiences contribute to the development of place attachment, against …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… into his work—television, cars, nuclear weapons, gated communities—as a means of decoding them, and he thus worked to uncover the latent patterns and effects of the modern technological landscape, envisioning various extreme end points for humanity and warning about the various psychopathologies …
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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon
… including skyscrapers, downtown developments and gated communities; retail malls and artificial islands; airports and ports; and highways. Built into these corporate urban structures are edifices of politics, ideology and certain forms of socio-spatial and temporal organization. The corporation, …
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