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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Gated community"”.
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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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Unlocking a Gated Community: A Qualitative Study of Two Self -Contained Gifted Classes
The central mission of public schools is to provide an appropriate education to all students. Special programs that target one segment of the school population are politically vulnerable. Gifted education is particularly susceptible to attack, especially in times, such as today, of reduced state …
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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 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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Left outside or trapped in the visible and invisible gate. Insights into the continuities and discontinuities in the creation of good and just living in open and gated suburbs of Johannesburg.
Starting from the consideration that gated estates and complexes are increasingly becoming part of the urban, peri-urban and rural landscape of many societies undergoing transformation, the aim of this dissertation is to explore what difference it makes to live in an enclosed space in order to …
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Crowdsourcing in community participatory planning in China : case studies in four communities in Shenzhen
Community participatory planning is a crucial component of urban planning but there is no effective public participation in the Chinese planning decision-making process, which brings up social conflicts and planning failures. As more urban redevelopment are launched in China and social media …
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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 openness within walls : reshaping the gated campus
… Construction", which states that all existing gated compound units must be gradually planned with open boundaries. Taking this new policy into account, this thesis rethinks urban design strategies for campuses, which are commonly gated due to social, economic, and historical factors in …
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La construcción de urbanizaciones cerradas como estrategia de desarrollo local
Esta tesis tiene como eje revisar el debate acerca de la construcción de urbanizaciones cerradas y el impacto en el desarrollo local en los Municipios que las albergan. Desde el punto de vista urbanístico y económico, esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto territorial que ha …