| Title |
Uždaros gyvenvietės kaip teritorinės segregacijos veiksnys / |
| Authors |
Pociūtė-Sereikienė, Gintarė ; Krupickaitė, Dovilė |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Filosofija. Sociologija.. Lietuvos mokslų akademija. 2016, 27, 2, p. 161-172.. ISSN 0235-7186. eISSN 2424-4546 |
| Keywords [eng] |
gated communities ; territorial segregation ; city regions ; post-socialist city ; post-socialist transformations. |
| Abstract [eng] |
CEE countries are experiencing post-socialist transformations. The new ideas that are coming from Western part of Europe or USA are kindly welcomed in former socialist countries. With these new ideas in CEE countries have appeared new phenomenon – gated communities (GC) – as the new-style residential settlements that become the symbols of territorial segregation. This phenomenon in Lithuania is not so often, but the last years the number of such neighbourhoods has increased and currently we count around 30 GCs in our country. In public and academic literature that is analysed and presented in this article, the appearance of such territorial structures in the cities and their regions are considered controversially. On the one hand, it is pointed out that these settlements create positive atmosphere, economic value, social infrastructure for both: settlements’ residents and also for the neighbourhoods where they are located. On the other side stand the opponents of GCs who underline that these settlements segregate the society and they provide with the list of negative effects of these gated settlements again for both: GC residents and the ones who are left “outside the wall”. The main questions that are raised in our research are following: does the emergence of gated communities influence the segregation in the cities/city regions? How do the GCs affect these settlements’ residents and the society that is left “beyond the wall”? |
| Published |
Lietuvos mokslų akademija |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2016 |
