2007 4th International Conference of the research network
Private urban governance & gated communities

Private Urban Governance : Production of urban spaces,
Interactions of public and private actors, Sustainability of cities

5-8 june 2007

Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Link: homepage of the Paris conference

all abstracts (.pdf, 6.6 MB)

conference papers in alphabetic order (.pdf-files):

Abe-Kudo, Junko Vertical gated communities in Tokyo.
Alaily-Mattar, Nina Segregat ion for aggregation? Detachment and concentration in networked nodes of affluence in the city of Beirut.
Bagaeen, Samer Gated Communities: What’s New? (with Ola Uduku)
Ballard, Richard From ‘Brittany’ to ‘Champagne’ in Five Minutes: Producing and Consuming Gated Communi ties in Durban, South Africa. (with Gareth Jones)
Bartling, Hugh Private Governance, Public Subsidies: The Cultural Politics of Exurban Sprawl in Florida, USA.
Becker, Débora Gated condominiums – the use of open spaces and the social cohesion – a double look.
Bellet, Carmen Privatisation, security and spaces of simulation in the new city: gated communities in the metropolitan area of New York.
Berkoz, Lale From Apartments to gated communities: Transformations in private residential governments. (with Umit Yilmaz)
Blandy, Sarah The role and exclusionary impact of law in creating and maintaining spaces of private governance.
Bodnar, Judit Reconfiguring Private and Public: State, Capital and New Planned Communities in Berlin and Budapest. (with Virag Molnar)
Boudreau, Julie-Anne Problematic emergence: a theoret ical and practical perspective on shifting private governance models. (with Guénola Capron, Martha de Alba, Sophie Didier & Marianne Morange)
Brown, Gordon What to do about de facto private places: access morphology and questions of governance.
Browning, Christopher R. Urban Neighbourhoods, Commercial Space, and Violent Crime.
Capron, Guénola Problematic emergence: a theoret ical and practical perspective on shifting private governance models. (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Martha de Alba, Sophie Didier & Marianne Morange)
Charmes, Eric Privatisation or “Clubbisation”? The Case of the French Outer Suburban “Communes”.
Chen, Simon Institutional efficiency of urban private governance industrial
park-case studies in Taiwan.
(with Chen Jeng-Wen &Ko Lin Bo-Zhou)
Choon Piew, Pow From Public Housing to Private Neighborhoods: Gated Condominium Estates in Singapore.
Cotta, Diogo Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities: a matter of (dis)trust?
Cséfalvay, Zoltán New Segregation with New Conflicts - Gated communities in Hungary.
Cuglesan, Natalia Improving quality of urban governance in Regions West, Centre and North-West from Romania.
D’Agosto, Marcella Conflicts of fear: reflections of privatizat ion in public areas in Rio de Janeiro.
Danielsen, Karen A. The Small Town Politics of Big Cities: Private Government and the Rise of Boomburbs. (with Robert E. Lang)
De Alba, Martha Problematic emergence: a theoretical and practical perspective on shifting private governance models. (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Guénola Capron, Sophie Didier & Marianne Morange)
De Titta, Anselmo Leaving the city outside. Gated Communities in the urban region of Milan. (with Riccardo Zilli)
Degoutin, Stéphane Built Metaphors: Gated Communities and Fiction. (with Gwenola Wagon)
Didier, Sophie Problematic emergence: a theoretical and practical perspective on shifting private governance models. (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Guénola Capron, Martha de Alba & Marianne Morange)
Dinzey-Flores, Zaire The New Gated Ghetto: Gated Public Housing Communities in Puerto Rico.
Dirsuweit, Teresa The production of ‘secure’ space in new urbanism developments in Johannesburg.
Dixon, Jennifer Gated Developments in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Fashion, Fortification or the Future? (with Ann Dupuis)
Donaldson, Ronnie Does size matter? GCs in small towns and claiming micro space in Cape Town. (with Manfred Spocter)
Donovan, Gregory Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Community in New York City. (with Setha Low & Jennifer Gieseking)
Dupuis, Ann Gated Developments in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Fashion, Fortification or the Future? (with Jennifer Dixon)
Eick, Volker Socially Integrative City – a German program promoting private urban governance "civil society" style.
Escarria, Sandra The role of public-private partnerships in the production of urban space and its social effects. Study-case: Monterrey, México.
Fabiyi, Oluseyi Community building as a response to insecurity; an overview of non-state security initiatives in residential neighbourhoods of Ibadan. Nigeria.
Fernández Prajoux, Viviana Gated communities and large scale residential developments in Santiago, Chile, 1995/2005 ¿consequences of urban regulation?
Ferreira, Mafalda The impact of closed condominiums in the form and structure of metropolitan areas. (with Paulo Pinho & Sara Santos Cruz)
Füller, Henning "More than a new place to live - a whole new way of live" - Planned Communities as a technology of power. (with Nadine Marquardt)
Gadecki, Jacek Center for contemporary art in Torun searching for development model.
Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia Private neighbourhoods and the search for sustainability: arguments for a debate.
Giroir, Guillaume The specificities of gated communities in China.
Gotsch, Peter Innovations and Challenges of 21.’st century’s privately driven ‘Neo-Urbanism’, exemplified along a comparative study of the three New Towns: Bumi Serpong Damai (Jakarta, Indonesia) , Navi Mumbai (Mumbai, India) and Alphaville (Sao Paolo, Brazil).
Grant, Jill From armed compound to broken arm: the meaning of gates in israel and canada. (with Gillad Rosen)
Grant, Jill Privatizing the fringe: development on private roads in Nova Scotia.
Guenet, Michel Gated communities impacts in the fucionality and urban development in the aglommeration of Puebla, Mexico. (with Guadalupe Milian Avila)
Hölzl, Corinna The increase of high-rise apartment buildings in Buenos Aires. New tendences of socio-spatial fragmentation.
Hui, Desmond Public-private Cooperation in Creative Industry Parks in
Shanghai.
(with Jane Zheng)
Jeng-Wen, Chen Institutional efficiency of urban private governance industrial park-case studies in Taiwan. (with Simon Chen & Ko Lin Bo-Zhou)
Jones, Gareth From ‘Brittany’ to ‘Champagne’ in Five Minutes: Producing and Consuming Gated Communi ties in Durban, South Africa. (with Richard Ballard)
Kaffo, Célestin Bus Stations in Cameroon : An Experience of a form of Private Management of Public Space in Sub-Saharan Africa. (with Pierre Kamdem & Magloire B. M. Takem)
Kamdem, Pierre Bus Stations in Cameroon : An Experience of a form of Private Management of Public Space in Sub-Saharan Africa. (with Célestin Kaffo & Magloire B. M. Takem)
Kinlocke, Robert Spatial Expressions of fear, Identity and Exclusion: Gated Communities in the Kingston Metropolitan Area.
Kuppinger, Petra Exclusive Spaces and the Making of a New Regionality: Malls and Gated Communities in the Middle East.
Landman, Karina Urban transformation and gated communities: a framework to map the (re-) production of urban space and its impact on urban governance in South Africa.
Lang, Robert E. The Small Town Politics of Big Cities: Private Government and the Rise of Boomburbs. (with Karen A. Danielsen)
Le Goix, Renaud Gated Communities, Homogeneity and Social Distance in Las Vegas and Phoenix. (with Elena Vesselinov)
Lemanski, Charlotte Gated Communities and Land Invasions in Cape Town: Parallel narratives, differential state responses. (with Sophie Oldfield)
Lin, Bo-Zhou Ko Institutional efficiency of urban private governance industrial park-case studies in Taiwan. (with Simon Chen & Chen Jeng-Wen)
Low, Setha Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Community in New York City. (with Gregory Donovan & Jennifer Gieseking)
MacLeod, Gordon Gated Communities and the ‘Securitization of the Habitat’: Privatizing the Urban Political Realm? (with Joe Painter)
Madoré, François Dwellers words of inhabitants within Newton block flats in Nantes (Closed and secured residence). (with Fanny Vuaillat)
Marquardt, Nadine "More than a new place to live - a whole new way of live" - Planned Communities as a technology of power. (with Henning Füller)
Masen, Vasiliki Urban gentrification: the flip side of private urban governance.
Michon, Perrine Guests and hosts at Canary Wharf.
Milian Avila, Guadalupe Gated communities impacts in the fucionality and urban development in the aglommeration of Puebla, Mexico. (with Michel Guenet)
Molnar, Virag Reconfiguring Private and Public: State, Capital and New Planned Communities in Berlin and Budapest. (with Judit Bodnar)
Morange, Marianne Problematic emergence: a theoret ical and practical perspective on shifting private governance models. (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Guénola Capron, Martha de Alba & Sophie Didier)
Nobre, Paulo The close relationship between tourism and a privately governed territory – a sustainable urban solution in Brazil? (with Maria Floresia Pessoa Silva)
Oldfield, Sophie Gated Communities and Land Invasions in Cape Town: Parallel narratives, differential state responses. (with Charlotte Lemanski)
Painter, Joe Gated Communities and the ‘Securitization of the Habitat’: Privatizing the Urban Political Realm? (with Gordon MacLeod)
Perrin, Mathieu The gated community as a postmodern utopia.
Pessoa Silva, Maria Floresia The close relationship between tourism and a privately governed territory – a sustainable urban solution in Brazil? (with Paulo Nobre)
Peyroux, Elisabeth City Improvement Districts (CIDs) and the production of urban space in Johannesburg: Local governance, urban regeneration and new meaning of places.
Pinho, Paulo The impact of closed condominiums in the form and structure of metropolitan areas. (with Sara Santos Cruz & Mafalda Ferreira)
Plöger, Jörg Security Providing Bodies in Lima (Peru): The Emergence of a Complex Constellation of Actors.
Raposo, Rita Looking backward: Lisbon, 2007 – California, 1970’s – Manchester, 1837 – London, 1726; or a cultural historical analysis of gated communities.
Rohrbach, Katja urban form - reflecting [on] society.
Roitman, Sonia Social practices and viewpoints: a conceptual framework for the analysis of urban social group segregation and gated communities.
Rosen, Gillad From armed compound to broken arm: the meaning of gates in Israel and Canada. (with Jill Grant)
Santos Cruz, Sara The impact of closed condominiums in the form and structure of metropolitan areas. (with Paulo Pinho & Mafalda Ferreira)
Sheinbaum, Diana Divided City: An historical perspective on gated communities in Mexico City.
Spocter, Manfred Does size matter? GCs in small towns and claiming micro space in Cape Town. (with Ronnie Donaldson)
Takem, Magloire B.M. Bus Stations in Cameroon : An Experience of a form of Private Management of Public Space in Sub-Saharan Africa. (with Célestin Kaffo & Pierre Kamdem)
Uduku, Ola Gated Communities: What’s New? (with Samer Bagaeen)
Umbach, Greg (“Fritz”) Private Policing / Public Housing.
Vendé, Céline Various gated communities in various francil ien territories.
Vesselinov, Elena Gated Communities, Homogeneity and Social Distance in Las Vegas and Phoenix. (with Renaud Le Goix)
Vuaillat, Fanny Dwellers words of inhabitants within Newton block flats in Nantes (Closed and secured residence). (with François Madoré)
Walks, Alan The Politics of Gated Community Residents in Canada.
Wu, Fulong Packaging a new way of (sub-)urban life: gated communities and Chinese new urbanism.
Yilmaz, Umit From Apartments to gated communities: Transformations in private residential governments. (with Lale Berkoz)
Zheng, Jane Public-private Cooperation in Creative Industry Parks in
Shanghai.
(with Desmond Hui)
Zilli, Riccardo Leaving the city outside. Gated Communities in the urban region of Milan. (with Anselmo de Titta)