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Gated Communities
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Gated Communities
Examining the historical, political & socioeconomic contexts of gated communities. Discusses reasons for their existence, public vs. private space, crime, clsss polarization, elitism, communitarianism and individualism.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
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1999
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the phenomenon of the rise in the number of gated communities for the upper middle class of the United States. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical, social, and cultural context for the increase of gated-community living, and then to discuss how such communities manifest and/or respond to such issues as elitism, concern for personal safety, privacy, communitarianism, and isolation.In the 1990s, an estimated 8-10 million middle-class and upper-middle-class Americans have become residents in so-called gated communities, at their extreme described as "walled medieval enclaves replete with gates and private security forces" (McCormick, 1998, p. 45). Equally, some 8.5 million poverty-class residents live in an estimated 3,000 ghetto or declining urban .."
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