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Gated communities of the Moscow green belt: newly segregated landscapes and the suburban Russian environment 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
The transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet period in and near Moscow manifested itself in increasing production of
segregated space both in the urban core and suburban areas outside of the beltway to accommodate the preferences of the new
Russian business and governmental elite. This paper focuses on the residential single-family housing inside old and new settlements,
which are frequently gated. Approximately 260 of such suburban communities have been developed within 30 km of the beltway
during the past few years, of which a majority have some form of exclusion mechanism in place, typically tall solid fences,
gates, closed-circuit video surveillance and guarded entry checkpoints. The difference in exclusivity varies from the most
exclusive older communities inside Moscow Serebryany Bor enclave and Rublevskoe highway mansions to less exclusive new developments
along Novorizkhskoe and Dmitrovskoe highways. Despite high rates of construction, based on sociological surveys in 2003, only
about 11% of Russia’s upper class claimed to live in such new “cottages,” with the rest owning condos and luxury apartments
in the inner city or older detached homes in villages and small towns. Therefore, not all the needs have been accommodated
and more development is certain to take place. The environmental impact of such developments is profound. Based on preliminary
LANDSAT image analysis, almost 22% of suburban “green belt” forested land within 30 km zone has been converted to new construction
from 1991 to 2001. New construction is now focusing on the remaining fragments of natural vegetation, which will likely lower
air quality and water quality available for the city. Ironically, the new developments advertise themselves as “clean and
green” with massive investments in unnatural landscaping (seeded lawns, exotic shrubs, river and lake shore “improvements”).
This investment highlights the well-known paradox of development in which people move out of town to live near nature, while
destroying the wild nature they come to enjoy.
“We left city for the weekend
It was raining, saw no stars
There were fences everywhere
Our chiefs behind the bars.”
Gennady Shpalikov 相似文献
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Sarah Blandy 《GeoJournal》2006,66(1-2):15-26
It is important to analyse the growth of gated communities and the drivers for their supply and demand, within the context
specific to each country’s history. This article uses findings from recent studies of gated communities in England, together
with historical material, to explore their typology. It considers the changing social, economic and political conditions which
may lead to the emergence of defended collective housing, together with the history of property relations and the concept
of public/private land within the English context. 相似文献
3.
Fred Powell 《GeoJournal》2012,77(2):141-152
This article sets out to explore the political relationship between the global and the local through the prism of the sustainable
development. The ideal of sustainable communities is explored in the context of evolving political fictions that define alternative
conceptions of modernity. While the article uses Ireland (reputedly the most globalised society in the world) as a microcosm
of development, the context is firmly located within the wider sphere of European and planetary politics. It is argued that
the ideal of sustainable communities offers the opportunity of reviving the civic republican tradition of democracy (the Ancient
Greek agora) as a metaphor for the public sphere in the conditions of late modern society. The agora in Ancient Greece provided a site of political assembly, based upon participation (citizens’ engagement in decision-making)
and deliberation (a process of reached argument). Today, concepts such as ‘participatory civility’ and ‘discursive democracy’
seek to revive these classical ideals, as the basis for building sustainable communities in a transforming modernity that
searches for a new logic of development. 相似文献
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Suburbanization has been a prominent urban process in the United States since the World War II. It has transformed American cities in profound ways in every single aspect of urban development; from population and wealth distributions, through political organization and affiliations, to the built environment. This paper investigates the link between gated communities and the process of suburbanization in the context of socio-economic inequality. It has been shown time and again in the scholarly literature on suburbanization, that suburban neighborhoods in American cities have been traditionally more affluent and less diverse than central cities. The research on gated communities in the US also shows that they are, on average, more affluent compared to other communities in terms of family income and housing values. Are gated communities then simply a new form of suburban communities? Is the gated community in fact a suburban community with the added element of security features? The paper investigates these questions based on segregation and spatial analyses. The research contributes to the long line of studies on suburbanization, gating and the larger issues of urban inequality. 相似文献
5.
Feng Deng 《GeoJournal》2017,82(2):231-246
Research on gated community in Chinese cities has been growing very fast, but empirical studies are limited, especially those on the relationship between gated community and residential segregation. A retrospective questionnaire survey was conducted in three gated communities in Chongqing, China. The findings from the survey include that, after moving into the gated communities, many homeowners’ contact with other people decreases. It is also found that homeowners’ participation in local public affairs decreases. These results hold even when we compare with the reference group and control for duration of stay. They support the view that gated community aggravates residential segregation. However, the survey shows that many homeowners feel the income differences among the neighbors increase and the changes of several types of external activities don’t show a consistent pattern. All these empirical findings suggest that a complex relationship between gated community and residential segregation exists in urban China and the removal of work unit from the housing system affects people’s experience in gated community. 相似文献
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Vu Thi Hong Hanh 《GeoJournal》2006,66(3):165-186
Since the city’s founding back in 1698 on the old Khmer city of Prei Nokor, rivers and canals have always been Ho Chi Minh
City’s (HCMC’s) primary means of transportation. Despite the decline of the utilization of the city’s abundant waterways due
to the increasing development of modern aerial services and more convenient roads, the HCMC’s canal-based urban form, with
its water-based socio-economic structures that include port-boat-market activities and canal handcraft villages, still processes
a rich cultural and religious diversity that dates back to the history of the city itself. Currently, developments in the
city’s transportation systems are having a damaging impact on the canals’ cultural background. Rather than being recognized
as a significant cultural asset that identifies the city, the canal system has been physically reorganized as the city’s drainage
system and valued as only a supplementary landscape element; canal communities have been evicted, and canal built fabric has
been removed due to recent canal-side transportation developments. To revitalize the urban cultural identity that is possessed
by the canal system and to enrich it as a contemporary valuable layer in the city’s dynamic regional development, it is critical
to implement cultural conservation and tourism in the development of canal-side transportation and supplementary projects
in the canal vicinity. 相似文献
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G.N. Fomin 《Geoforum》1976,7(4):259-269
The paper describes the current stage of transformation of the residential distribution system in the USSR, the state policy in the field of urban development, the tasks facing Soviet architects and the way to their solution. The state policy in the field of residential distribution and urban development provides for: the systematic and scientifically substantiated distribution of production and human settlements on the basis of coordinated development and distribution of productive forces and the perfecting of the systems of residential distribution; the utilization, improvement and protection of landscape; the restriction of the growth of very large cities and development of the network of small and medium towns; the transformation of villages into modern well-organized settlements of the collective and state farms and the elimination of the existing distinctions between town and country; the regular development and distribution of towns and settlements in different geographical zones and most favourable natural-and-economic regions of the USSR; the overcoming of irregular population distribution in the European and Asiatic parts of the USSR; the formation of group-systems of human settlements on the basis of big urban agglomerations and territorial-industrial complexes; the development of new territories through land improvement. Basic attention in the report is paid to the consideration of the master scheme of residential distribution in the USSR, its scientific fundamentals, main purposes and tasks. The analysis of the decisive factors and of the main trends of the development of the systems of human settlements for a long-term perspective is given. The master scheme of residential distribution contemplates the systematic development on the USSR territory of different human settlements contributing, to a maximum degree, to the achievement of the objectives of socialist construction, to the creation of most favourable conditions for the people's work, life and rest, to the development and intensification of social production taking into account objective tendencies of urbanization and the effective use of forecasted urban development resources. The realization of the master scheme of residential distribution will allow to fully take into account the economic, ecological and demographic requirements in the elaboration and realization of the plans of development of production and residential distribution aimed at the rise of the living standard of the Soviet people. 相似文献
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War on Terror,work in progress: security,surveillance and the configuration of the US workfare state
This paper evaluates the impact of recent shifts in the geopolitical outlook of the United States—specifically the ‘Global
War on Terror’ and its domestic ramifications—on the prior project of reconfiguring the US state to an after-Fordist ‘workfare’
paradigm. In particular, the paper attempts to situate recent developments in the reconfiguration of the American welfare
state within the context of debates over the ‘exceptional’ nature of US politics post-9/11. The extent to which this has had
a bearing on work practices, welfare provision and workfarism is investigated, citing examples from the post-9/11 era. On
the basis of such examples it has been suggested that the project of reconfiguring the US welfare state and labour relations
does overlap and intersect with the emergency practices that the US state has instituted domestically as part of the War on
Terror. However, the reconfiguration of the US welfare state towards a neoliberal or workfarist paradigm is, we argue, largely
part of the ‘normal’ (as opposed to exceptional) fabric of US politics. The project of reconfiguring the US welfare state
is ongoing and largely autonomous (although not entirely removed) from the use of exceptional practices in relation to the
US security state. Investigation of this relationship, we assert, provides a potentially fruitful ‘new direction’ for both
critical geopolitics and political economic geography, and grounds for interaction between the two. 相似文献
9.
Ivan J. Townshend 《GeoJournal》2006,66(1-2):103-120
The privatization of urban space, as represented in the trend towards a wide variety of common interest developments and increasing
prevalence of gated communities, is an international phenomenon. Recent research has not systematically explored the ways
in which these types of developments are collectively re-shaping the public and private realms of the city at large. This
empirical study of community areas in a Canadian city describes a number of historical private neighbourhood development trends
and their convergence in space and time. Based on the empirical generalizations, a conceptual model is developed to illustrate
how the trends may have combined to produce a new geography or ecology of space privatization within the city, one in which
the older public city is being circumscribed and bounded by new territories of multi-tiered privatization. 相似文献
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Damage caused by the earthquake of 7 December 1986 (M = 5.7) and its aftershocks in low-storey residential buildings in the town of Strazhitza, Bulgaria, situated in the epicentral zone are systematized. A scale of damages is compiled for two types of buildings which is coordinated with the MSK-64 scale. The territorial distribution of the seismic intensity is compared with the results of the detailed engineering-geological study. A correlation between the Quarternary deposit thickness and the observed seismic intensity is obtained.Paper presented at the 21st general assembly of the European Seismological Commission held in Sofia, 1988. 相似文献
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Literature on common-interest development (CID) in housing, most common in the form of gated communities, has been based largely on the US’s experience, where the interpretation has centered on the interaction between three actors (local government, private developer, and homeowner association) and barely focused on the privatization of neighborhood governance in transition economies. This paper, through a case study of gated community in Phu My Hung new town shows that Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam—in the context of transition from centrally-planned to market-based economy—has been witnessing this privatized phenomenon of neighborhood governance. It employs both primary data, collected through observation and key informant interview, and secondary data to explain the contextual factors for the rise of gated communities in the city and find out the mechanism of neighborhood governance. In the city, housing privatization reforms, influx of foreign direct investment, and the formation of urban middle class have constituted the supply- and demand-side factors for the rise of gated communities. In addition, the reforms towards grassroots participation created a favorable environment for a privatization of neighborhood governance in which the private developer plays a dominant role in partnership with local government and homeowner association. To a certain extent, this privatization is similar to the case of US’s gated communities, however, it does not threaten the public authority and instead maintains a good collaboration between these three actors. This is an indigenous innovation of gated communities in Vietnam due to its socio-economic conditions and political context. 相似文献
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Choon-Piew Pow 《Geoforum》2011,42(3):382-393
Notwithstanding the burgeoning scholarship on enclave urbanism, urban gating has often been pigeonholed as an intra-urban development that is somewhat ‘epiphenomenal’ to wider global processes. Overlooked in the literature is how gated communities as globally-oriented spaces are intertwined with the transnational lifeworlds of its elite inhabitants. As key sites where transnational super-rich elites organize their consumption and reproduce their purportedly global lifestyle, gated communities are now emerging as a new ‘meta-geographical form’ that circulates in and around rapidly globalizing cities. Drawing on the case study of Sentosa Cove, an exclusive waterfront gated community in Singapore catering to ‘high net-worth’ residents, this paper critically examines how elite localities and transnationalism are being socially and spatially reproduced in the city-state. To this end, the paper makes a distinct contribution by bringing to bear critical transnationalism perspectives in the understanding of urban gating and the privileged geographies of the global super-rich. 相似文献
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Stanley D. Brunn 《GeoJournal》2006,66(1-2):5-13
Three interrelated concepts about the “gatedness of life” are addressed in this essay: gated communities, gated lives, and
gated minds. All are important components in understanding the places where gated communities are located within a city as
well as those who live in them. Mapping these concepts is a further theme discussed. 相似文献
14.
Recent developments in the vulnerability literature have contested the use of technical solutions as the sole adaptive strategies
to reduce natural hazard impact; this literature emphasizes the need to attend to the wider everyday risks to which people
are exposed and that aggravate hazard vulnerability. Using a case study of two flood-prone communities in Puerto Rico, this
article supports and enhances that literature by placing floods within a wider context of other risks and determining how
everyday risks influence people’s perceptions of and capacity to adapt to floods. Participatory methods are used to elicit
the everyday risks that concern community members. The analysis reveals that participants perceive floods as one of their
risks, but they see them as neither the most important nor most severe risk in their lives. Instead, they find other concerns—health
conditions, family well-being, economic factors, and land tenure—more pressing. These competing risks limit adaptive capacity
and increase vulnerability to natural hazards. The results suggest that addressing these multiple risks, mainstreaming flood
management and adaptation into the wider context of people’s general well being, and increasing risk perception will strengthen
adaptive capacity to present and future floods. 相似文献
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D. G. Pringle 《GeoJournal》1996,39(4):377-385
The prospects for the peaceful resolution of a conflict are conditioned by the spatial context. Some aspects of this spatial
context are the product of human agency, and may therefore be amenable to social engineering. However, other aspects of the
spatial context are fixed: if perceived to be part of the problem, they must be circumvented by other means. Irish nationalist
claims to the territory of Northern Ireland are based on the fact that Ireland is a relatively small island, and is therefore
perceived by nationalists as a ‘natural’ political unit. These demands are rejected by the unionist majority of people living
within Northern Ireland, who claim they are British. The recent peace process in Ireland was initiated by Irish nationalists.
Given the unwillingness of republicans within the nationalists movement to contemplate any solution which does not entail
the incorporation of the whole of Northern Ireland into an all-Ireland state, the peace process is viewed by many unionists
as a devious attempt to achieve nationalist objectives by an alternative route. However, the fact that people in both communities
in Northern Ireland enjoyed the benefits of an uneasy peace for 15 months may have changed the context: peace, whithout prior
conditions, is now perceived by many people to be an important goal in its own right. The challenge to geographers is to try
to identify a new ‘post-nationalist’ spatial context which could povide an acceptable compromise for both communities in Northern
Ireland. This will require imagination, but the will for peace is strong. 相似文献
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Basak Tanulku 《Geoforum》2012,43(3):518-528
The growing research on gated communities has largely regarded them as isolated and isolating places, rather than considering residents’ relations with other spaces and communities. This paper seeks to examine these external contacts through exploring the ways in which gated communities establish relations with local political actors. This is done through an examination of two gated communities in Gokturk and Omerli, Istanbul, and an analysis of the differences between them. On the basis of semi-structured in-depth interviews with residents and locals, the paper demonstrates how gated communities engage with the outside world in contrasting ways. By focusing on the conflict between Islamist and secular people, the paper also argues that gated communities are active urban agents, establishing interdependent relations with local political actors which can change urban space and politics. 相似文献
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There is growing recognition among political ecologists of the need to examine shifting natural resource regimes and their
effects on livelihoods in “First World” places. This emerging literature has variously examined the “Third World within,”
the persistence of “subsistence activities” in the “First World,” and the “reterritorialization” of land tenure and access.
However, much of this work has tended to focus on traditional extractive industries in the American West, indigenous claims
to lands and resources in the U.S. and Canada, and non-timber resources on public lands. In contrast, we use a case study
of African-American sweetgrass basket-makers, associated with the Gullah culture, in South Carolina’s lowcountry to examine
the ways in which ongoing amenity-driven residential development is fundamentally reshaping resource access on private lands.
Historically, basket-makers harvested the materials (primarily sweetgrass or Mulenbergia filipes) needed for their culturally
important art form from accessible, rural, and privately held tracts of land in close proximity to their communities, but
development pressures and changes in resident interpretation of property rights has decreased access to basket-making resources.
The case is particularly illuminating, as it examines the emergence of ‘conservation subdivisions’ in the region and raises
important questions about what “rural uses” and users are being conserved through responses to exurban, suburban, and urban
development in formerly rural areas. 相似文献
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Bohra DM 《GeoJournal》1979,3(1):63-68
In this research paper attempts have been made to analyze the distribution of 68 urban settlements in 14 regions of the country.
The value of near-neighbour statistic (R) shows nearly random pattern of urban settlements in some regions and approachingly
uniform distribution of urban settlements in other regions. Regional distribution of urban settlements and their growth have
been explained in context of region's geographical, economic and industrial frameworks. 相似文献
19.
Government policies intended to reduce flood losses can increase the potential for catastrophe by stimulating development
inside the floodplain, a phenomenon referred to as the “safe development paradox.” New Urbanist design has the potential to
both exacerbate and alleviate flood risks. Because they are built at relatively high densities, New Urbanist developments
can exacerbate risk by placing more people and property in harm’s way. Conversely, New Urbanist design features theoretically
better enable designers of New Urbanist developments to avoid floodplain portions of project sites than designers of conventional
subdivisions. Using a sample of New Urbanist developments in the US that contain floodplain portions within their boundaries,
this paper focuses on whether and why these developments locate built structures inside the floodplain. The authors find that
roughly 30% of the developments locate structures inside the floodplain, and that the odds of locating structures inside the
floodplain increase with the proportion of the project site located inside the floodplain and decrease with the presence of
government policies that prohibit residential development in the floodplain. The authors also identify confusion among government
planners regarding the distinction between pre and postconstruction floodplain boundaries. A subset of New Urbanist developments
is found to have built structures located outside the postconstruction floodplain boundary, but inside the preconstruction
floodplain boundary. This finding is cited as an example of the “safe development paradox” in action. The authors recommend
changes in New Urbanist design codes and local government floodplain management to increasingly direct new development away
from the floodplain. 相似文献
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Matthew Durington 《GeoJournal》2006,66(1-2):147-160
This paper explores gated community culture and development in the suburbs of North Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Using perspectives from the anthropology of space and place as a theoretical and methodological framework, ethnographic fieldwork in one community in this area explores the cultural reasoning behind the movement to a fortified suburban enclave in South Africa by problematizing why, in a newly democratic society based on an ethos of desegregation, do individuals feel the need to segregate themselves along class and racial lines in fortified developments in a fashion reminiscent of homeland demarcation during apartheid? And, is the movement to gated communities within post-apartheid South Africa solely a white cultural and class phenomenon? While these questions are necessary, and perhaps commonsensical in terms of the unique social history of South Africa, research also attempts to complicate these lines of inquiry to apprehend the cultural reasoning and lifestyles of gated community residents to move past racial and class stereotypes and delve into the complex culture of these environments and the different rationalizations that individuals work with to justify their surroundings. 相似文献