GATED COMMUNITIES: BUILDING SOCIAL DIVISION OR SAFER COMMUNITIES

Sponsored by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit


Date: 18th- 19th September 2003

Venue: The Teacher Building, Glasgow

Background to the Conference

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Abstracts


Manueal Aalbers
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment

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Rowland Atkinson
Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research

Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time-space trajectories of segregation

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Sarah Blandy and Diane Lister
Centre for Regional, Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Gated communities: (Ne)gating community development?

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Eric Charmes
French Institute of Urbanism, Paris

Interactions with neighbouring others in French periurban areas:barriers and openness


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Tzu-Yuan Chao and Taner Oc
School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham

Creating a safer community for elderly people in mixed-used developments - vertical gated community in the city centre

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Simon Chien-Yuan

Chen Institutional evolution of homeowner associations in Taiwan

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Lindsey Darien
University of Kent at Canterbury

Is New Labour making the most of its stocks of social capital with special reference to housing?

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Jenny Dixon
Department of Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Gatedness' and governance: Residential intensification in Auckland, New Zealand

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Ozlem Dundar
Gazi University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning

An example of a gated community from Ankara, Turkey

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George Glasze
Institute of Geography, University of Mainz

Some reflections on the economic and political organisation of private neighbourhoods

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Dr Angela Giglia
Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City

Gated communities in Mexico City

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Guillaume Giroir
University of Orléans (France)

Gated communities, clubs in a club system. The case of Beijing (China)

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Renaud Le Goix
Department of Geography, University of Paris

"Gated communities" as territories apart in Southern California. Assessing the level of socio-spatial discontinuities created by walls and gates

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Jill Grant
School of Planning, Dalhousie University, Canada

Planning responses to gated communities

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Leena Helenius-Maki
Research Unit for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Tampere University, Finland

Security as a key value - building up security villages for elderly and handicapped people

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Karina Landman
CSIR Building and Construction Technology, South Africa

Alley-gating and neighbourhood gating: are they two sides of the same fence?

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Tony Manzi and Bill Smith-Bowers
University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, London

Gated Communities and Mixed Tenure Estates: Entrenching Social Division or Building Safer Communities?

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Gordon MacLeod
International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies, University of Durham, England

Gated communities and the formation of a 'splintering urbanism'

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Evan McKenzie
Political Science Department,University of Illinois at Chicago

Private Gated Communities in the American Urban Fabric: Emerging rends in their Production, Practices, and Regulation

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Cletus Moobela
Sheffield Hallam University, Facilities Management Graduate Centre

Gated communities: the evolutionary pattern of social networks in urban regions

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Alfred Omenya
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Theoretical conceptualisations of urban segregation and their relevance to housing in post-apartheid South Africa

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Cristina Patriota de Moura
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil

'Gates and Open Spaces: New arragements in Brazil

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Michael Punch, Declan Redmond and Sinead Kelly
Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin; Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin;Department of Regional and Urban Planning, University College Dublin.

Restructuring the divided city: recent patterns of change in economy, space and governance in Dublin

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P Stuart Robinson
Department of Political Science and Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway

The contours of post-statist politics. Connecting gated communities to other contemporary phenomena

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Sonia Roitman
Development Planning Unit, University College London

Who segregates who?

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Guy Thuillier
University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail, France

Gated communities in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina): a challenge for town planning

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Chris Webster

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Fulong Wu
Department of Geography, University of Southampton

Rediscovering the 'gate' under market transition: From work-unit compounds to commodity housing enclaves

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If you have any further queries, please contact the Conference Organiser
Rowland Atkinson