In Santiago, Chile, the number of gated communities has increased significantly during the past few years. Although these communities are aimed at the elite, they are often located on the fringes of low-income neighborhoods ...

This thesis explores the distribution of fear of crime in neighbourhoods next to gated communities, and their variants, by considering poverty levels and elements of the built environment. Fear of crime is a constant ...

Fear of crime is a constant concern in Latin America. In Costa Rica, those feeling seems to be changing the urbanisation patterns; giving way to gated communities. However, those developments might be increasing feelings ...

Over the last 30 years, one can perceive growth towards sociospatial exclusion in Latin American cities with more than 80,000 inhabitants. Gated communities, hermetically sealed off from their surrounding neighbourhoods ...

Spatial segregation is one of the main consequences of building gated communities. They are typically walled or fenced, with private security and surveillance devices. Gated communities have been spreading rapidly in ...

The two Cono Sur capitals share similarities (effects of globalization, socio-spatial segregation, fragmentation, rise of gated cities, social housing in remote locations lacking public transport), however a variety of ...

It is often said that we live in a borderless world. We saw this during the pandemic to some respects, when even though most of the world population were confined to their homes, people still “travelled” using the Internet, ...

Santiago has been growing rapidly during the last decade and most of the new housing development within the consolidate area, around the periurban areas and even more in the periphery, just in the edge of the city, is ...