"Gated Communities: Building Social Division or Safer Communities?"

http://uam-antropologia.info/web/articulos/goglia_gated_communities.pdf

This study takes a look at gated communities in Mexico City, home to people ranging from lower-middle class to higher-middle class, and how inclusion/exclusion of gates and fences work to sometimes provide more safety, sometimes not, and how they contribute to the residents' identities and perceptions of themselves, their neighborhoods, and the rest of the world. An interesting question posed by the authors is what people's perceptions of security and insecurity are, and what about these communities attracted people to live in them (they are the "non-urban" amidst the "urban").

- Rebecca Willett