From public neighbourhoods to multi-tier private neighbourhoods: the evolving ecology of neighbourhood privatization in Calgary |
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Authors: | Ivan J Townshend |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K3M4 |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Canada Gated communities Neighbourhood Private communities Privatization of space Urban social ecology |
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