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Two sides of a coin? New urbanism and gated communities

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Contemporary residential building trends reflect concerns about privacy, traffic, and managing difference. Despite the radically different premises behind New Urbanism and gated communities, I find on closer inspection that they both respond to similar perceived crises in our cities. New Urbanism answers urban challenges with bold efforts to recapture the strengths of older communities and to supplant unwanted suburban patterns with those believed to have greater resilience and public purpose. Gated communities reveal popular skepticism about the potential for improving urban conditions and a consequent desire to retreat to protected compounds. In both cases, the new suburbs generally provide housing primarily for the most affluent among us and represent the ascendance of private over public interests. By examining the Canadian urban context, this article explores some ways in which New Urbanism and gated communities differ, while also highlighting the characteristics and dilemmas they share.

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  • Jill L. Grant, 2007. "Two sides of a coin? New urbanism and gated communities," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 481-501, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:18:y:2007:i:3:p:481-501
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2007.9521608
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    1. Ajay Garde, 2020. "New Urbanism: Past, Present, and Future," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 453-463.
    2. Dan Trudeau, 2018. "Sustaining Suburbia through New Urbanism: Toward Growing, Green, and Just Suburbs?," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(4), pages 50-60.
    3. Peter Aning Tedong & Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz & Zafirah Al-Sadat Zyed, 2021. "Planners’ Perspectives on Governing and Producing Sustainable Cities in Malaysia," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 153(3), pages 1197-1214, February.
    4. Crystal Filep & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett, 2020. "New Urbanism and Contextual Relativity: Insights from Sweden," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 404-416.
    5. Kaihuai Liao & Rainer Wehrhahn & Werner Breitung, 2019. "Urban planners and the production of gated communities in China: A structure–agency approach," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(13), pages 2635-2653, October.
    6. Ferreira Verno & Visser Gustav, 2015. "A spatial analysis of gating in Bloemfontein, South Africa," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 28(28), pages 37-51, June.
    7. Yonn Dierwechter, 2020. "New Urbanism as Urban Political Development: Racial Geographies of ‘Intercurrence’ across Greater Seattle," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 417-428.

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