| Description |
1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Series |
The city in the twenty-first century |
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City in the twenty-first century book series
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| Contents |
Prologue : The Native Outsider -- Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor : Past and Present -- Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor : An Experiment in Class Integration -- "Precaution : Security Knives in the Gates" -- Community : Where Rights Begin and End -- The Secret Gardens -- Neighbors More Remote than Strangers -- Epilogue : The Gated Library -- Methodology |
| Summary |
In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce - the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system - became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables" out but also shut them in. Ubiquitous and inescapable, gates continue to dominate present-day Ponce, delineating space within government and commercial buildings, schools, prisons, housing developments, parks, and churches. In this book, the author examines four communities in Ponce, showing how gates - in both physical and symbolic ways - distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social inequalities, and cement boundary lines of class and race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-208) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 20th century
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Gated communities -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Urban
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Ponce (P.R.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Puerto Rico -- Ponce
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012041495 |
| ISBN |
9780812208207 |
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081220820X |
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