SM Low - American anthropologist, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Across America, middle‐class and upper‐middle‐class gated communities are creating new forms of exclusion and residential segregation, exacerbating social cleavages that already …
EJ Blakely, MG Snyder - Architecture of fear, 1997 - academia.edu
It has been over three decades since this nation legally outlawed all forms of discrimination in housing, education, public transportation, and public accommodations. Yet today, we are …
Gated communities are a new" hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the debate over whether …
R Atkinson, S Blandy - Domestic fortress, 2016 - manchesterhive.com
Why have fear and anger become such a prominent feature of social life, evidenced by violent responses to home invasion? Why is it that, contrary to the objective evidence, it is …
SM Low - City & Society, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Currently one third of all new homes built in the United States are in gated residential developments, and eight million people already live in such communities. Secured …
In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce—the second largest public housing authority in the US federal system—became a gated …
Gated communities—enclaves of homes surrounded by walls, often with security guards— are becoming increasingly popular in America. This article introduces and analyzes findings …
A sweeping new look at the unheralded transformation that is eroding the foundations of American exceptionalism. Americans today find themselves mired in an era of uncertainty …
The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past …