Gated communities social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments
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, e...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Earthscan
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. issued in paperback |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 140 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780415830416 978-0-415-83041-6 9781844075195 978-1-84407-519-5 |