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Living together but gates apart: aspirations and place caring practices among residents living outside a gated community in Peri-urban Accra.
Global capital investment in the housing sector has transformed major African cities such as Accra into segregated clusters of high-rise buildings...
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Gated or Ungated? A Case Study on Walkability Measurement for Urban Communities
The walkability is closely related to the lifestyle and health of local residents. Unreasonable community design may result in spatially segregated...
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The infectious divide: a comparative study of the social impact of gated communities on the surrounding in the middle East
In recent years, gated communities have increasingly become an attractive lifestyle residence worldwide and in the Middle fostering security,...
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The morphology and characteristics of livable public space in gated community settlement of Medan City, Indonesia
The existence of the gated community in Indonesia was formed based on the similarities between ethnic groups as observed in Balinese, Arab, Chinese,...
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Neo-liberal urbanism and sustainability in Turkey: commodification of nature in gated community marketing
Neoliberalism arose as a project to reinforce the power of capitalism against the working class in the post-1970 period and created unequal...
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Redesigning Urban Neighbourhood Space Under the Open Community Policy in Mainland China
In China's urban development, the gated community model has proliferated. This model's popularity has contributed to the loss of Chinese...
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Online Community Managers
As collections of people with shared interests and ideas, communities facilitated by online media are often integrated with in-person friendships or...
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A systematic review of gated communities and the challenge of urban transformation in African cities
Globalization and the spread of neo-liberal models of urban restructuring have resulted in the rise in gated communities worldwide, including in...
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Psychiatric Experiments with “Community” Under Dictatorship and Authoritarianism: The Case of the Protected Commune Experience, 1980–1989
In Chile, a long and oppressive military regime (1973–1990) dismantled emergent initiatives for the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric care,...
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From Space Production to Community Empowerment
This book begins with Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space, with a localized Shanghai narrative woven throughout all the chapters with a...
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Fear and Segregation: Anxiety Beyond Gated Communities. The Costa Rican Case
Spatial segregation is one of the main consequences of building gated communities. They are typically walled or fenced, with private security and...
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Home and neighborhood environmental correlates of civic participation among community-dwelling older adults in Canada
Productive aging research has thoroughly documented that civic participation is associated with health and psychological well-being among older...
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Unequal Citizens: Between the Gated and the Informal in Cairo
The conception of citizenship which accompanied the emergence of the nation-state, promulgated equal rights and duties for all citizens as members of...
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Perception of security risk in gated and non-gated communities in Lahore, Pakistan
This paper investigates the perception of security risk and causes of crimes in gated and non-gated communities in Lahore, Pakistan. Due to...
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Urban Resilience by Morphology? Reflections on Lockdown Urbanism in China
The initial containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in China has been attributed by media and experts to the strict implementation of a generalised...
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Interaction between life satisfaction and housing and neighborhood satisfaction: “privileged” housing areas in the city of Bursa, Turkey
This study aims to analyze the effect of satisfaction with housing and neighborhood on the life satisfaction of residents with higher economic status...
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Trickle-out Urbanism: Are Johannesburg’s Gated Estates Good for Their Poor Neighbours?
In 2015, the billionaire Douw Steyn launched a mixed-use megaproject 27 km north of downtown Johannesburg. Plans for Steyn City include 10,000...
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COVID-19, Gated Communities, and Urban Resilience: A Comparative Analysis Between China and Colombia
Based on a comparative analysis of gated communities in Shanghai, China and in Bogotá, Colombia, this chapter investigates weaknesses and patterns of...
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Community Acceptance Towards Migrant Settlements in a Sustainable City: What Contributes to the Not in My Backyard Social Phenomenon?
Migrant labour plays a crucial role in Iskandar Malaysia, a southern development corridor that emphasises sustainable development. Following the...
