Gated communities are a new "hot button" in many North American cities. From Boston to Los Angeles and from Miami to Toronto citizens are taking sides in the de

This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates,

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Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens throug