Gated communities as a municipal development strategy

Duren, Nora Ruth Libertun de

doi:10.1080/10511482.2007.9521613

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“…Indeed, several empirical studies separately examine the benefits each member of this "gating coalition" derives from the proliferation of GCs. For example, empirical studies of some London boroughs (Gooblar, 2002), peri-urban municipal authorities in Buenos Aires (de Duren, 2007) and planning officer in peri-urban Accra (Falt, 2019), all find instances in which local planning regulations have either been relaxed or ignored to attract GCs. For benefits accruing to developers, empirical studies have shown how introducing gates and other security features adds a premium to the sale prices of houses in GCs relative to houses in the same neighborhood that are not gated (LaCour-Little & Malpezzi, 2009;Soyeh et al, 2020).…”

Section: Gated Communities and Their Discoursesmentioning

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“…For example, serviced-plot GCs would not be expected to provide estate management services. Similarly, a GC planned for 10,000 households might be compelled by either planning requirements or market imperatives to provide amenities such as security, recreational and even commerce-related amenities to enhance people's lived experience without overburdening the amenities provided by municipal authorities (de Duren, 2007;.…”

Section: Modeling the Supply-side Factors Influencing The Provision O...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there is a rich literature on advanced (Gooblar, 2002;McKenzie, 2005), emerging (de Duren, 2007;Güzey, 2014;Thuillier, 2005) and developing economies (Ehwi et al, 2019;Grant, 2015;Liao et al, 2022) that explore the role of city authorities in facilitating the emergence of GCs and by extension their amenities as municipal development or regeneration strategies, there is a dearth of studies exclusively devoted to illuminating the amenities provided in GCs and the factors that determine their provision. Existing studies have tended to highlight amenities in GCs as part of efforts to reveal the exclusive lifestyles led by GC residents, and hence no attempt has been made to systematically conceptualize the different types of amenities in GCs and the factors that influence their provision.…”

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Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana

Ehwi

2022

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Fiscal constraints facing municipal governments make gated communities that self-finance their amenities a welcome phenomenon. However, studies exclusively devoted to investigating the types of amenities supplied in gated communities and the factors that determine their supply remain unexplored. This paper fills this gap by using survey data from 51 gated communities sampled across the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) in Ghana. After conceptualizing 10 different amenity categories commonly found in gated communities, it finds that security, governance, accessibility, and communalrelated amenities are those commonly found in gated communities in GAMA. Multiple linear regression modeling reveals that only four amenity categories, namely, security, governance, communal and health-related amenities have a significant model fit. It further finds that both the "number of houses planned" and the "year project construction began" increase the number of all four amenity categories provided in gated communities. However, other locational, company and project characteristics have a differential impact on the number of these four amenities provided, some of which appear to contradict some existing theoretical propositions underlying the provision of amenities in gated communities. It concludes by reflecting on municipal authorities' increasing reliance on gated communities to supply amenities in light of the findings.

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Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana

Ehwi

2022

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…Nevertheless, considerable amounts of studies also propose that GCs have harmful effects on urban society. Many studies demonstrate that GCs deepen social polarization [26][27][28]. In one study, GCs are interpreted as an internal simplification which will inevitably increase social tensions and exacerbate social cleavage among communities [29].…”

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Evaluating Accessibility Benefits of Opening Gated Communities for Pedestrians and Cyclists in China: A Case Study of Shanghai

2021

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Opening gated communities (GCs) has been widely discussed for urban inclusion and revitalization. With the policies of opening GCs being promoted in China, the quantitative and comprehensive evaluation of the potential benefits is heavily needed. Taking Shanghai as an example, this study quantifies and analyzes the accessibility benefits and risks of opening GCs for pedestrians and cyclists considering two GC types, two opening levels, two travel modes, and different facilities. We found that (1) opening GCs can bring 50 m+ accessibility gains to 17% and 52% of the residents in moderate opening (MO) and complete opening (CO) scenarios, respectively. (2) Cyclists benefits more than pedestrians in all scenarios. (3) Conventional GCs have fewer benefits in MO but more in CO than newly established ones. Trips to bus stations demonstrate the largest accessibility gains. (4) The accessibility benefit of a residential building is highly determined by its closeness to the gates and relative location in the block. (5) Only 1% and 5–7% of external trips may penetrate the opened communities in MO and CO scenarios, respectively, which are far less than both the expectation and the benefits. Finally, several local design guidelines are proposed.

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Cities in Latin America

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2016

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Urban Latin America has changed dramatically over the latter half of the twentieth century. From 1950 to 1980 Latin American cities showcased high rates of migrant absorption, overurbanization, and national state domination of local politics and decision‐making. Urban growth concentrated in a few cities, reinforcing conditions of primacy and growing demands for urban servicing to meet the needs of an industrial economy primed for national economic growth. By 1990, decentralization policies devolved political decision‐making to smaller jurisdictions, giving local authorities more sway in urban servicing and policy‐making but also increasing municipal pressures to generate public sector revenues to finance local urban development. Since 2000, economic globalization has opened consumer and investment markets to make cities sites for real estate development and high‐end services, with these transformations occurring alongside a shrinking industrial economy and rising un‐ and underemployment. Today, Latin America's largest cities are modern and economically dynamic metropolises with architecturally iconic high‐rises and gated communities that could rival those seen in any major city of North America or Europe. Even so, they host a range of social problems associated with income inequality, structural unemployment, persistent housing informality, and violence, all of which hold the potential to negatively affect urban quality of life.

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Gated communities as a municipal development strategy

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana

Modelling the supply-side factors influencing the provision of amenities in gated communities: The case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana

Evaluating Accessibility Benefits of Opening Gated Communities for Pedestrians and Cyclists in China: A Case Study of Shanghai

Cities in Latin America

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