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Title: Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America by Setha Low ISBN: 0-415-94438-4 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A fascinating social study, and very highly recommended
Comment: Expertly researched and informatively written by Setha Low (Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Behind The Gates: Life, Security, And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Fortress America is an impressive and scholarly study of the gated communities phenomena. The gated commu-nity is the fastest-growing form of housing in the United States. Individual chapters address the origin of the gated community; its emphases on safety and fear of crime; as well as a means of enhancing property values, and promoting insularity -- yet the ironic results are that gated communities are statistically no safer than the suburbs in general. A fascinating social study, and very highly recommended reading for anyone seriously concerned about the trend toward gated communities or seriously considering moving to one, Behind The Gates is a welcome and original contribution to American Urban Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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Title: Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States by Mary Gail Snyder, Edward J. Blakely ISBN: 0815710038 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.39 |
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Title: Building Suburbia : Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 by Dolores Hayden ISBN: 0375421289 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government by Evan McKenzie ISBN: 0300066384 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000 by Bruce Katz, Robert E. Lang, Franklin D. Raines ISBN: 0815748590 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 0375407502 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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