For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life. Contributed to, and edited by, an international team of leading authors, this revealing book constructs an interdisciplinary discourse on the global spread of private communities based upon empirical evidence. Case studies from the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and China are used to explore local and global explanations of the phenomenon. Taking an institutionalist approach, this informative textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers alike, develops a model in which cities are shaped by the interplay of local and global processes, and evolve at the interface of spontaneous and planned order. It draws together the various themes, propositions and hypotheses in a way that clarifies the questions by different social science perspectives and that poses researchable questions and new agendas.
Author(s): C. Webster
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 256
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
FIGURES AND TABLES......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 16
2 THE DYNAMICS OF PRIVATOPIA......Page 24
3 THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT......Page 44
4 UNLOCKING THE GATED COMMUNITY......Page 58
5 PRIVATE GATED NEIGHBOURHOODS......Page 76
6 GATED COMMUNITIES AS PREDATORS OF PUBLIC RESOURCES......Page 88
7 CONDOMINIOS FECHADOS AND BARRIOS PRIVADOS......Page 104
8 GATED COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA......Page 120
9 THE SPREAD OF PRIVATE GUARDED NEIGHBOURHOODS IN LEBANON AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A HISTORICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY SPECIFIC GOVERNMENTALITY1......Page 138
10 THE PURPLE JADE VILLAS (BEIJING)......Page 154
11 CHINA’S MODERN GATED CITIES......Page 166
12 THE RISE OF GATED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOODS IN PORTUGAL AND SPAIN......Page 182
13 THE RISE OF PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOODS IN ENGLAND AND NEW ZEALAND......Page 202
14 MORE GATES, LESS COMMUNITY?......Page 216
15 CONCLUSION......Page 232
INDEX......Page 247
