Title & Author:

Gated communities : social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments / edited by Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku.

Publication:

London ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.
©2010

Description:

xiv, 140 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gated histories: an introduction to themes and concepts / Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku -- Opening the gates : an East-West transmodern discourse? / Ziauddin Sardar -- Gated urban life versus kinship and social solidarity in the Middle East/ Samer Bagaeen -- Gating urban spaces in China : inclusion, exclusion and government / Luigi Tomba -- Lagos: 'urban gating' as the default condition / Ola Uduka -- Gated minds, gated places : the impact and meaning of hard boundaries in South Africa / Karina Landman -- Latin American gated communities : the latest symbol of historic social segregation / Sonia Roitman and Mónica Adriana Giglio -- Gated communities in Mexico City : a historical perspective / Diana Sheinbaum -- Production and social sustainability of private enclaves in suburban landscapes: French and US long-term emergence of gated communities and private streets / Renaud Le Goix and Delphine Callen -- Barriers and boundaries : an exploration of gatedness in New Zealand / Ann Dupuis and Jennifer Dixon.

Summary:

"Gated Communities poses new questions at a time when the conception of gated communities has become fixed and narrow. It is the first book to provide a broad and comparative historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of original writing on the issue by an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781844075195 (hardback)
1844075192 (hardback)
9780415830416 (pbk.)
0415830419 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gated communities.
Gated communities History.
Communautés privées.
Communautés privées Histoire.
gated communities.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bagaeen, Samer.
Uduku, Ola, 1963-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317813
Call No.: 317813
Status: Available