Full Description
Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft boundaries, modern communication and networks of influence.
The book, written by an international team of experts, builds on the research of Bagaeen and Uduku's previous edited publication, Gated Communities (Routledge 2010) and relates recent events to trends in urban research, showing how the discussion has moved from privatised to newly collectivised spaces, which have been the focal point for events such as the Occupy London movement and the Arab Spring.
Communities are now more mobilised and connected than ever, and Beyond Gated Communities shows how neighbourhoods can become part of a global network beyond their own gates. With chapters on Australia, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this is a truly international resource for scholars and students of urban studies interested in this dynamic, growing area of research.
Contents
Foreword: Gated as a Variable Introduction 1. Beyond Gated Communities: urban gating, soft boundaries and networks of influence and affluence 2. Gated Communities in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape: An exploratory genealogy of 'Occupy London' 3. Gating in Urban Johannesburg: Digging inside the social and political systems of a golf estate and an open suburb of Johannesburg 4. Gated Communities in South Korea and the Dilemma of the State 5. Urban Gating in Thailand: The new debates 6. Gating in Urban Ireland 7. Gating in the Western Cape, South Africa: Planning and environmental agents 8. Beyond Gating: Condo-ism as a way of urban life 9. Urban gating in Israel: home gating practices on kibbutzim and moshavim 10. Urban Gating in Puebla, México: An S.O.S. for World Solidarity and Citizen Empowerment 11. Gating in South Africa: A gated community is a tree; a city is not 12. Urban Gating in Chile: Chuquicamata: a corporate mining town: 'bounded territory within a territory'
