Belgrade ; Bucharest ; Gatedcommunity ; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Local amenities ; Poland ; Prague ; Residential area ; Romania ; Security ; Serbia ; Social geography ; Suburbs ; Urban landscape ; Urbanism ; Warsaw ; Wrocław
The ten articles deal with the development from housing estates to gatedcommunities, the status of gates in Belgrade, the new gatedcommunities in Polish urban landscape, the demythologising of gatedcommunities in Budapest, the question
in Lithuania, the gatedcommunities in Prague and the features of gatedcommunities in the most populous Hungarian cites. - (IfL)
of suburban housing in Wrocław, the residential ensembles in “hypermodern times” with the example Bucharest, the provision of private services and enforcing neighbours behaviour in one of Warsaw’s gated neighbourhoods, the gated and guarded housing
Gated/gatingcommunity: the settlement complex in the West Bank
Army ; Colonialism ; Gatedcommunity ; Israel ; Jews ; Mobility ; Palestine ; Palestinians ; Political geography ; Public space ; Settlement ; Territorialisation ; West Bank
This article examines gated/gatingcommunity and the settlement complex in the West Bank. 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
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 gatedcommunities by adding colonialism and violence to the mostly neoliberal explanations of the phenomenon.
Le phénomène des gatedcommunities à Pékin, ou les nouvelles cités interdites
Beijing ; China ; Gatedcommunity ; Housing ; Real estate market ; Segregation ; Typology
Etude des spécificités des gatedcommunities pékinoises, ghettos dorés dans la Chine rouge : un phénomène en plein essor mais aux contours flous ; examen des types de résidents. Mécanismes de formation et signification des communautés clôturées
Czech Republic ; Gatedcommunity ; Internationalization ; Post-modernism ; Prague ; Social polarization ; Social structure ; Spatial distribution ; Town ; Urbanization
The aim of this article is to present gatedcommunities in Prague in the context of postmodern urbanization. The article focuses on the spatial distribution of gatedcommunities, their social structure and the causes of emergence
of these residential objects. The article shows that there is no statistically demonstrable logic behind the spatial distribution of gatedcommunities in Prague. The emergence of gatedcommunities in Prague is linked with various processes of postmodern urbanism
In the middle of nowhere : gated neighbourhoods in Vilnius region as a new lifestyle ?
Decayed neighbourhood ; Gatedcommunity ; Housing market ; Lithuania ; Social status ; Socio-economic indicators ; Urban area ; Urban geography ; Vilnius
The article provides an overview about the new tendencies on the Lithuanian housing market shedding light on the development of the gated and guarded neighbourhoods (GGNs). Field surveys and interviews with developers, residents as well as local
on the market? The research results show that gated neighbourhoods are established not only because of the need to prevent residents from violence or to show their social status but also to protect their lives from the chaotic and socially unstable outside world
where the gates have more symbolic meanings. - (AM)
Rural gated developments as a contributor to post-productivism in the Western Cape
Counterurbanization ; Gatedcommunity ; Land use ; Living environment ; Post-productivism ; Rural area ; Social change ; Societal relations ; South Africa ; Western Cape
Gated developments have increasingly become part of the rural locale in South Africa. While rural gated developments offer features of security, community and exclusivity in an idyllic rural setting, their proliferation can be linked to a wider
Iron curtains : gates, suburbs and privatization of space in the post-socialist city
Bulgaria ; Gatedcommunity ; Post-communism ; Private space ; Privatisation ; Public space ; Sofia ; Suburbs ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urbanization
, and the recent expansion of private space, the text reviews the recent evolution of post-socialist cities in Eastern Europe before focusing on Sofia and on the gated houses and gated complexes that have developed in the city’s inner areas and recent suburbs
Co-evolution of gatedcommunities and local public goods
Co-evolution ; Gatedcommunity ; Governance ; Housing ; Municipality ; Private sector ; Public sector ; Real estate development ; Seoul ; South Korea ; Urban policy
Biens publics ; Co-évolution ; Communauté fermée ; Commune ; Corée du Sud ; Gouvernance ; Logement ; Politique urbaine ; Promotion immobilière ; Secteur privé ; Secteur public ; Seoul
This article examines the co-evolution of gatedcommunities and local public goods in Seoul, South Korea. It identifies co-evolutionary relationships between club goods supplied in condominiums and public goods supplied by municipalities and market
Gates or no gates? a cross-European enquiry into the driving forces behind gatedcommunities
Eastern Europe ; Europe ; Gatedcommunity ; Governance ; Owner-occupier ; Role of the State ; Social class ; Social geography ; Tax policy ; Urban economy ; Wage inequality ; Western Europe
Si l'appellation gatedcommunities d'origine américiane, en français clos privés, s'applique à des zones résidentielles sécurisées, une étude de la littérature et de l'analyse synoptique géographique (au Brésil, en Afrique du Sud, aux Etats-Unis, au
Searching for economic rationale behind gatedcommunities : a public choice approach
Gatedcommunity ; Public choice ; Residential choice ; Social class ; Taxation system ; Urban society
qu'un système de gouvernement centralisé réduit la capacité des communes à répondre aux demandes de biens publics et de services des citoyens. L'absence d'une politique fiscale équitable ou de l'impôt sur les bénéfices sociaux perçus incitent ceux qui le