GEO 911 Lecture Notes - Federal Housing Administration, Sewage Treatment, Supermajority
6 Mar 2013
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Gated communities are residential areas with restricted access in which normally public spaces are privatized. They are security developments with designated perimeters, usually walls or fences, and controlled entrances that are intended to prevent penetration by nonresidents. They include new developments and older areas retrofitted with gates and fences, and they are found from the inner cities to the exurbs and from the richest neighbourhoods to the poorest. Estimated 1/3 gated communities are luxury developments, 1/3 are retirement orientated and. In 1997 there were an estimated 20, 000 gated communities in u. s with more than 3 million housing units. Estimated in 2000: 50 million americans (20 percent of population) lived in a gated community. Issue of privatization of general municipal services isolated from larger political system. Private communities provide own security, screen maintenance, recreation amenities, parks, garbage pickup etc- taxpayers are relieved of these costs.
