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The formalization of informal neighborhood relationships and spaces :Gated housing developments, community, and control

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The formalization of informal neighborhood relationships and spaces :
Reminder of title:	Gated housing developments, community, and control
Author:	Snyder, Mary Gail.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Chair: Karen Christensen.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0725.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Urban and Regional Planning.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3121705
ISBN:	0496690566

The formalization of informal neighborhood relationships and spaces :Gated housing developments, community, and control
Snyder, Mary Gail.

The formalization of informal neighborhood relationships and spaces :Gated housing developments, community, and control [electronic resource] - 272 p.

Chair: Karen Christensen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

This research is a study of selected aspects of the growing trend toward the formalization of aspects of neighborhood social structure and physical space that previously were, and are still largely, conceived of in popular discourse and imagination as informal in part or in whole. In particular, neighborhood governance, communal or mutual safety, the concept of community itself, and the physical spaces of neighborhood, including sidewalks and streets, are being formalized in both legal and physical ways that define, structure, and give rise to significant changes in their creation, their maintenance, their shape in popular conception, their role as lived experience, and in their social and individual usage. This general movement is clearly seen in the phenomenon of gated housing developments. For example, informal structures of neighborhood cohesion such as neighboring relationships, communal traditions, and shared values are formalized through neighborhood associations, and then further into homeowner associations structured through deed restrictions and covenants. Spaces are formalized physically and socially from being defined, experienced and controlled through social norms and informal controls, into gated and fenced territories with access restricted and entry and use governed by legal stricture and physical barriers. The study examines this formalization of informal spaces and relationships through exploratory and descriptive field study of gated developments across the United States, including focus group and informant interviews and a survey of homeowner association boards. It concludes that the phenomenon of gated housing developments, best understood through the aspirations and expectation of control and community of the residents, do not meet these expectations through the addition of or transition to formal mechanisms and structures.

ISBN: 0496690566Subjects--Topical Terms:

212416
Urban and Regional Planning.

The formalization of informal neighborhood relationships and spaces :Gated housing developments, community, and control
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