Private Cities : Global and Local Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415341707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

C. Webster; Chris Webster; Georg Glasze

Opis

For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life.

Private Cities brings together an international team of authors in an attempt to construct an interdisciplinary discourse on the global spread of private communities based upon empirical evidence. Case studies from the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and China are used to explore local and global explanations of the phenomenon. Two distinct propositions emerge from the analysis, firstly that private neighborhoods are a manifestation of the processes bound up in the globalization of culture and economy. Alternatively they can be seen to emerge and adapt locally. Unifying the chapters is the notion that private neighborhoods are a new territorial form of organization on a local scale.

The volume takes an institutionalist approach, developing a model in which cities are shaped by the interplay of local and global processes and evolve at the interface of spontaneous and planned order. It seeks to draw together the various themes, propositions and hypotheses in a way that clarifies the questions asked in different ways by different social science perspectives and in a way that poses researchable questions and new agendas.

Spis treści

Introduction.  The Dynamics of Privatopia.  The Economic Case for Private Residential Government.  Unlocking the Gated Community.  Private Gated Neighbourhoods.   Gated Communities as Predators of Public Resources.  Condominios Fechados and Barrios Privados.  Neighbourhoods in Latin America.   Gated Communities in South Africa.   The Spread of Private Guarded Neighbourhoods in Lebanon and the Significance of a Historically and Geographically Specific Governmentality.   The Purple Jade Villas (Beijing).  China’s Modern Gated Cities.   The Rise of Gated Residential Neighbourhoods in Portugal and Spain.  The Rise of Private Residential Neighbourhoods in England and New Zealand.   More Gates, Less Community? Guarded Housing in Russia.  Conclusion

O autorze

Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz