Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives

by GEORG GLASZE; GEOGRAPHISCHES I

• ISBN13: 9780415341707
• ISBN10: 0415341701
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 institutionalistapproach, 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Introduction: global and local perspectives on the rise of private neighbourhoods	1	(8)
Georg Glasze
Chris Webster
Klaus Frantz
The dynamics of privatopia: private residential governance in the USA	9	(22)
Evan McKenzie
The economic case for private residential government	31	(14)
Fred E. Foldvary
Unlocking the gated community: moral minimalism and social (dis) order in gated communities in the United States and Mexico	45	(19)
Setha M. Low
Private gated neighbourhoods: a progressive trend in US urban development	64	(12)
Klaus Frantz
Gated communities as predators of public resources: the outcomes of fading boundaries between private management and public authorities in southern California	76	(16)
Renaud Le Goix
Condominios fechados and barrios privados: the rise of private residential neighbourhoods in Latin America	92	(17)
Michael Janoschka
Axel Borsdorf
Gated communities in South Africa	109	(18)
Ulrich Jurgens
Karina Landman
The spread of private guarded neighbourhoods in Lebanon and the significance of a historically and geographically specific governmentality	127	(15)
Georg Glasze
The Purple Jade Villas (Beijing): a golden ghetto in red China	142	(11)
Guillaume Giroir
China's modern gated cities	153	(17)
Chris Webster
Fulong Wu
Yanjing Zhao
The rise of gated residential neighbourhoods in Portugal and Spain: Lisbon and Madrid	170	(20)
Rainer Wehrhahn
Rita Raposo
The rise of private residential neighbourhoods in England and New Zealand	190	(16)
Sarah Blandy
Jennifer Dixon
Ann Dupuis
David Parsons
More gates, less community? Guarded housing in Russia	206	(16)
Sebastian Lentz
Conclusion: dynamic urban order and the rise of residential clubs	222	(16)
Chris Webster
Georg Glasze
Index	238