This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.

Chapter 1 Constructing The Pomerium in Las Vegas: A Case Study of Emerging Trends in American Gated Communities, EVAN McKENZIE; Chapter 2 Homeowners Associations, Collective Action and the Costs of Private Governance, SIMON C.Y. CHEN, CHRIS J. WEBSTER; Chapter 3 Some Reflections on the Economic and Political Organisation of Private Neighbourhoods, GEORG GLASZE; Chapter 4 Rediscovering the 'Gate' Under Market Transition: From Work-unit Compounds to Commodity Housing Enclaves, FULONG WU; Chapter 5 Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning, GUY THUILLIER; Chapter 6 Planning Responses to Gated Communities in Canada, JILL GRANT; Chapter 7 Gated Communities: (Ne)Gating Community Development?, SARAH BLANDY, DIANE LISTER; Chapter 8 Who Segregates Whom? The Analysis of a Gated Community in Mendoza, Argentina, SONIA ROITMAN; Chapter 9 Gated Communities: Sprawl and Social Segregation in Southern California, RENAUD LE GOIX; Chapter 10 Gated Communities as Club Goods: Segregation or Social Cohesion?, TONY MANZI, BILL SMITH-BOWERS;