Gated Community
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A Gated Community is a Residential Community that ...
- See: Community, Fortress, Residential Community, Housing Estate, Pedestrian, Bicycle, Automobile, City Walls, Quarter (Urban Subdivision), Common Area, Common Interest Development, Intentional Community.
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2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_community Retrieved:2023-6-14.
- A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences. Historically, cities have built defensive city walls and controlled gates to protect their inhabitants, and such fortifications have also separated quarters of some cities. Today, gated communities usually consist of small residential streets and include various shared amenities. For smaller communities, these amenities may include only a park or other common area. For larger communities, it may be possible for residents to stay within the community for most daily activities. Gated communities are a type of common interest development, but are distinct from intentional communities.
Given that gated communities are spatially a type of enclave, Setha M. Low, an anthropologist, has argued that they have a negative effect on the net social capital of the broader community outside the gated community. [1] Some gated communities, usually called "guard-gated communities", are staffed by private security guards and are often home to high-value properties, and/or are set up as retirement villages. Some gated communities are secure enough to resemble fortresses and are intended as such.
- A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences. Historically, cities have built defensive city walls and controlled gates to protect their inhabitants, and such fortifications have also separated quarters of some cities. Today, gated communities usually consist of small residential streets and include various shared amenities. For smaller communities, these amenities may include only a park or other common area. For larger communities, it may be possible for residents to stay within the community for most daily activities. Gated communities are a type of common interest development, but are distinct from intentional communities.
- ↑ Low, S (2001) "The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear" , American Anthropologist, March, Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 45-58. Posted online on 10 December 2004.