Title & Author:

Beyond gated communities / edited by Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xx, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beyond gated communities: urban gating, soft boundaries, and networks of influence and affluence / Samer Bagaeen -- Gated communities in a changing geopolitical landscape: an exploratory genealogy of Occupy London / P. Stuart Robinson -- Gating in urban Johannesburg: digging inside the social and political systems of a golf estate and an open suburb / Federica Duca -- Gated communities in South Korea and the dilemma of the state / Hee-Seok Kim -- Urban gating in Thailand: the new debates / Veeramon Suwannasang -- Gating in urban Ireland / Therese Kenna, Denis Linehan, William Brady, and Jonathan Hall -- Gating in the Western Cape, South Africa: post-apartheid planning and environmental agency / Manfred Spocter -- Beyond gating: condo-ism as a way of life / Gillad Rosen and Alan Walks -- Urban gating in Israel: home gating practices on kibbutzim and moshavim / Guy Fayel -- Urban gating in Puebla, Mexico: an SOS for world solidarity and citizen empowerment / Guadalupe María Milián Ávila and Michel Guenet -- Gating in South Africa: a gated community is a tree--a city is not / Darrin Nel and Karina Landman -- Urban gating in Chile: Chuquicamata, a corporate mining town, "a bounded territory within a territory" / Ignacio Acosta.

Summary:

This book presents a paradigm shift for gated communities research. Based on contemporary studies from international authors, the chapters suggest that the debate should move away from the hard concept of a gated community to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft boundaries, modern communication and networks of influence. The book builds on the research of Bagaeen and Uduku's previous edited publication, 'Gated communities' (Routledge 2010) and relates recent events to trends in urban research, showing how the discussion has moved from privatised to newly collectivised spaces, which have been the focal point for events such as the Occupy London movement and the Arab Spring. Communities are now more mobilised and connected than ever, and Beyond Gated Communities shows how neighbourhoods can become part of a global network beyond their own gates. With chapters on Australia, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East, this is a truly international resource for scholars and students of urban studies interested in this dynamic, growing area of research.

ISBN:

9780415748247 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415748240 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415748254 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415748259 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315765976
(ePub ebook)
9781317659044
(PDF ebook)
9781317659051
(Mobipocket ebook)
9781317659037

Subject:

Gated communities.
Communities.
Urbanization Social aspects.
Communautés privées.
Communauté.
Urbanisation Aspect social.
gated communities.

Added entries:

Bagaeen, Samer.
Uduku, Ola, 1963-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317814
Call No.: 317814
Status: Available