Gated Communities in the United States

From Case Studies to Systematic Evidence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12912960
AutoresElena Vesselinov (City University of New York, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen4
Número11
Páginas989-998
Fecha de publicación2010-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00330.x
PMID33133233
OpenAlexW1937436888
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas23

Scholarly research about gated communities is a recently established field of study, because the significant proliferation of these communities has occurred in the last couple of decades. In this article, I argue that the seminal work of Blakely and Snyder (1997, Fortress America: Gated communities in the United States . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.) gave the first impetus and the initial research directions in gated communities' study. The subsequent research established it as a true interdisciplinary urban field and produced important knowledge across several different academic disciplines: sociology, political science, anthropology, urban policy and planning, geography, and legal studies. The article discusses this first phase of theoretical and empirical work, based mostly on qualitative and secondary data sources. A new methodological shift is proposed, which should determine the second phase of research based on hypotheses testing and collection of systematic empirical evidence. Such evidence is essential to understand the wider impact of gated communities on larger urban areas and society as a whole

Community studies · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Institution · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies