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Ariel Handel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gated gating Community the settlement complex in the west bank
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2014Co-Authors: Ariel HandelAbstract:The claim that the settlements in the West Bank are Gated communities might seem trivial. Those settlements are an explicit example of a Community featuring, on the one hand, social cohesion based on shared values, while, on the other hand, self-isolation with the help of fences and a stress on the ‘security of the Community’. The argument of this paper, however, is different. The paper suggests that the settlement layout in the West Bank is not just an aggregate of 124 ‘legal’ Gated communities and a similar number of ‘illegal outposts’, but rather a single, contiguous Gated Community gating, in turn, Palestinian ‘islands’ within it. The reading I will offer seeks to look at the space in question through a careful reading of its use values. The emphasis is put on the question of mobilities in order to show how the fortressed points turn into an exclusionary web by means of separated roads and movement restrictions. By analysing the combined system of settlements, roads, military legislation, spatial design and applied violence, the paper shows how the few hundred points consolidate into one coherent spatial system. The paper wishes to contribute to the spatial analysis of the now 45-year-old Israeli occupation of the West Bank, to the growing study of politics of mobility and to the discourse of Gated communities by adding colonialism and violence to the mostly neoliberal explanations of the phenomenon.
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Gated/gating Community: the settlement complex in the West Bank
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2013Co-Authors: Ariel HandelAbstract:The claim that the settlements in the West Bank are Gated communities might seem trivial. Those settlements are an explicit example of a Community featuring, on the one hand, social cohesion based on shared values, while, on the other hand, self-isolation with the help of fences and a stress on the ‘security of the Community’. The argument of this paper, however, is different. The paper suggests that the settlement layout in the West Bank is not just an aggregate of 124 ‘legal’ Gated communities and a similar number of ‘illegal outposts’, but rather a single, contiguous Gated Community gating, in turn, Palestinian ‘islands’ within it. The reading I will offer seeks to look at the space in question through a careful reading of its use values. The emphasis is put on the question of mobilities in order to show how the fortressed points turn into an exclusionary web by means of separated roads and movement restrictions. By analysing the combined system of settlements, roads, military legislation, spatial design and applied violence, the paper shows how the few hundred points consolidate into one coherent spatial system. The paper wishes to contribute to the spatial analysis of the now 45-year-old Israeli occupation of the West Bank, to the growing study of politics of mobility and to the discourse of Gated communities by adding colonialism and violence to the mostly neoliberal explanations of the phenomenon.
Matthew Slover Durington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Suburban Fear, Media and Gated Communities in Durban, South Africa
Home Cultures, 2009Co-Authors: Matthew Slover DuringtonAbstract:ABSTRACTA disjuncture between the reality of crime and its perception has created a culture of fear within South Africa that bolsters Gated Community development and an accompanying fear industry that supports media, private security companies, and a number of other industries that provide security apparatuses. Is the establishment of Gated communities an irrational response to perceptions of crime in South Africa in the twenty-first century? Or, are they deemed necessary in a perceived culture of violence that exists in the country? The article explores these questions through ethnographic research with residents of a Gated Community and the security company hired to provide security for the estate reflecting on the reality and perceptions of crime in the “New” South Africa.
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race space and place in suburban durban an ethnographic assessment of Gated Community environments and residents
GeoJournal, 2006Co-Authors: Matthew Slover DuringtonAbstract:This paper explores Gated Community culture and development in the suburbs of North Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Using perspectives from the anthropology of space and place as a theoretical and methodological framework, ethnographic fieldwork in one Community in this area explores the cultural reasoning behind the movement to a fortified suburban enclave in South Africa by problematizing why, in a newly democratic society based on an ethos of desegregation, do individuals feel the need to segregate themselves along class and racial lines in fortified developments in a fashion reminiscent of homeland demarcation during apartheid? And, is the movement to Gated communities within post-apartheid South Africa solely a white cultural and class phenomenon? While these questions are necessary, and perhaps commonsensical in terms of the unique social history of South Africa, research also attempts to complicate these lines of inquiry to apprehend the cultural reasoning and lifestyles of Gated Community residents to move past racial and class stereotypes and delve into the complex culture of these environments and the different rationalizations that individuals work with to justify their surroundings.
Alan Walks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gated communities neighbourhood selection and segregation the residential preferences and demographics of Gated Community residents in canada
Town Planning Review, 2014Co-Authors: Alan WalksAbstract:The last quarter century has seen the rapid rise of walled or Gated communities in a number of cities across the globe, including in Canada. Many claims have been made about those who move into Gated communities. It has been said that the rise of Gated living leads to segregation, driven by fear of crime or a desire for ‘civic secession’ as wealthy and/or white communities seek to separate themselves from different others. Alternatively, some scholars argue that such forms of Community arise mainly from preferences for shared amenities and specialised facilities or from an emphasis placed on the protection of property values and thus do not imply a process of social segregation. Such arguments have different implications for how Gated communities might affect the planning of the city. However, it is unclear whether Gated Community residents differ socio-demographically from other urban residents in Canada, and the preferences driving residential location decisions remain unknown. This article sheds light ...
Mark A Sunderman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gated Community premiums and amenity differentials in residential subdivisions
Journal of Real Estate Research, 2015Co-Authors: Evgeny L Radetskiy, Ronald W Spahr, Mark A SundermanAbstract:We use hedonic models to examine price differences between single family homes in Gated communities and a matched sample in non-Gated communities in Shelby County, TN. Controlling for idiosyncratic attributes; we find that homes in Gated communities carry significant price premiums relative to similar homes in non-Gated communities. Price premiums are highest for medium size Gated communities; whereas, premiums were also evident in higher priced Gated communities before 2008, but vanished after the financial crisis. Gated communities offer homeowners additional hedonic attributes but usually have higher infrastructure and service costs. Thus price premiums result from net benefits of Gated communities.
Chris Webster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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unravelling the impact of street network structure and Gated Community layout in development oriented transit design
Land Use Policy, 2020Co-Authors: Dugald Wallace, Chris WebsterAbstract:We investigate the associations between walking patterns and street network structure in the context of transit station development intended to create its own demand rather than serve existing demand, and an urban morphology dominated by Gated communities in station areas. We record the complete actual walking routes of 3637 metro users from station exits to their destinations. We then extract pedestrian access behaviour from these routes, summarised by link use density measured by pedestrian volume on each road segment; and route detour measured by deviation from the shortest access path. We unravel the impact of two design elements in station areas on the observed pedestrian access behaviours: street network structure measured by network centralities; and Gated Community layout measured by the degree of Gatedness, numbers, and geographic size. The route detours and network centralities are calculated based on a complete pedestrian network that includes pedestrian paths inside the Gated communities. The results show that network structure significantly impacts link use density. The higher the betweenness of a link (a network measure of connectivity to shortest paths), the higher the volume of metro riders using it. The main reason for pedestrians leaving metro stations on routes that deviate from the shortest access path was the presence of Gated communities. The results suggest that in countries like China where metro station development is used as a land development and urban expansion strategy and where Gated neighbourhoods are a common development typology, a policy to selectively open up Gated communities to more permeable pedestrian flows would be in the interest of station access with attendant benefits, by deduction, such as promoting metro ridership and increasing population health. The research framework and key findings of this study are transferable to transit developments throughout China and in similar developing contexts.