| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 140 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword Urban Gating: One Instance of a Larger Development?; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Gated Histories: An Introduction to Themes and Concepts; Chapter 2 Opening the Gates: An East-West Transmodern Discourse?; Chapter 3 Gated Urban Life versus Kinship and Social Solidarity in the Middle East; Chapter 4 Gating Urban Spaces in China: Inclusion, Exclusion and Government; Chapter 5 Lagos: 'Urban Gating' as the Default Condition |
| Summary |
Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the issue by an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors. The authors review current thinking on gated communities and consider the sustainability issues that these contemporary 'lifestyle' communities raise. The authors argue that there are links that can be drawn between the historic gat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gated communities.
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Gated communities -- History
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gated communities.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Gated communities
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bagaeen, Samer
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Uduku, Ola, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2009021298 |
| ISBN |
9781849774772 |
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1849774773 |
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9781844075195 |
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1844075192 |
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