Gated communities in the Denver‐boulder metropolitan area: Characteristics, spatial distribution, and residents’ motivations

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Richter ◽  
Andrew R. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Gated Communities

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SULFUR DETERMINED BY PIXE IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE MEXICO CITY METROPOLITAN AREA

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 207-215
Author(s):  
F. ALDAPE ◽  
J. FLORES M ◽  
J. FLORES A ◽  
A. RETAMA-HERNÁNDEZ ◽  
O. RIVERA-HERNÁNDEZ
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Fine Fraction ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Time Variability ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Sampling Network

An extensive investigation, aimed to study the fine fraction of airborne particulate matter (FAPM) in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), started in 2003, after the FAPM sampling network of the Environmental Secretariat of the Federal District Government (Secretaría del Medio Ambiente del Gobierno del Distrito Federal, SMA-GDF) was put into operation. Formerly, several research institutions in Mexico, in collaboration with the local government, made continuous efforts during the last two decades, in order to improve air quality in the MCMA. Samples have been collected using US-EPA designated samplers, following the same agency protocols. In this study, 922 samples were analyzed by PIXE in order to determine the elemental concentrations (ng/m3) of the FAPM. The samples were collected every three days by the Atmospheric Sampling Network (Red Automática de Monitoreo Atmosférico, RAMA) of the SMA-GDF, starting by the end of 2003 and along 2004 on three sites, and during the whole 2005 to the beginning of 2006 in seven stations, taking samples every six days during this last stage. The sample collection has continued up to date at the latter pace. The results obtained have allowed determining the sulfur (S) spatial distribution over the area, showing a reasonable uniformity in space, but well marked time variability. The S spatial distribution has also showed similar patterns between equivalent seasons from year to year, although not a strict periodicity. Compared to other elements found consistently in the samples, S is mainly distributed over the area by a large amount of mobile (mainly transportation) sources, fairly distributed over it, while other elements come from fixed sources located at industrial or urban areas. Comparisons were also made among the sampling sites, and among the three climatic seasons (drycold, dry-hot and rain) from year to year. Correlations between temporal variations of pairs of sampling sites were also calculated for S and other elements, in order to support these conclusions.

scholarly journals Gated communities as a symbol of a postmodern city: the case of Prague

Geografie ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-298
Author(s):  
Tomáš Brabec
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Social Polarization

The aim of this article is to present gated communities in Prague in the context of postmodern urbanization. The article focuses on the spatial distribution of gated communities, their social structure and the causes of emergence of these residential objects. The research is based on various scientific methods. The article shows that there is no statistically demonstrable logic behind the spatial distribution of gated communities in Prague. Particularly socially privileged inhabitants and affluent foreigners live in these residential areas. The emergence of gated communities in Prague is linked with various processes of postmodern urbanism (internationalization of capital and labour, social polarization, fragmentation, neoliberalism or postfordism).

scholarly journals A lakóparkok és lakóparkszerű létesítmények általános jellemzői a magyarországi megyei jogú városokban

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-223
Author(s):  
Gábor Hegedűs
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Geographical Dispersion ◽  
State Socialist

The modern gated communities first appeared in East-Central Europe after the collapse of state socialist systems. Moving into gated communities turned into one characteristic form of residential segregation. Since the beginning of the 1990s gated communities (in Hungarian: lakópark, 'residential park') began to be built in Budapest and in its direct suburban gravitation zone in Hungary. The largest cities in Hungary have a special administra-tive status (City with County Rights). We analyzed residential parks and residential park-like developments in the so-called Cities with County Rights having mostly over 50 thousands inhabitants. We typified residential parks, analyzed their geographical dispersion in the category mentioned above. We can observe significant differences in the numbers and spatial distribution of residential parks amongst the analyzed cities.

scholarly journals "Yes, nós temos bananas!" Praias, condomínios fechados, Resorts e problemas sócio-ambientais

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Limonad
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
The North ◽  
Littoral Area ◽  
Specific Part ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

A proliferação de condomínios, resorts e clubes turísticos na orla do litoral brasileiro, e o aumento do turismo internacional, contribuíram para converter em objeto de consumo várias partes da costa brasileira, acarretando uma expansão geográfica indiscriminada das atividades de turismo e veraneio, que colocam em risco a diversidade de um dos mais ricos conjuntos de ecossistemas costeiros tropicais do mundo. A intenção deste ensaio é levantar a extensão e as características da ocupação costeira relacionadas à multiplicação de condomínios, resorts e aglomerados urbanos em um trecho específico da orla litorânea do Nordeste do Brasil: a Costa dos Coqueiros ao norte da região metropolitana de Salvador na Bahia, com a meta de fazer algumas breves considerações sobre os impactos sócio-ambientais resultantes, bem como propor elementos que subsidiem ações integradas de planejamento e desenvolvimento regional para a área. Abstract The proliferation of gated communities, resorts and tourism clubs on Brazil's coastline area, besides the international tourism increase, had contributed to convert many seaside places into consumption objects, bringing along an indiscriminate geographicexpansion of tourism activities, jeopardizing the diversity of one of the world's richest tropical coastal ecosystems. This paper intends to verify the extension and characteristics of the coastal occupation related to gated communities concerning the multiplication of condominiums, resorts and urban agglomerations in a specific part of Brazil's northeastern littoral area: the "Coconut Coast" on the north of  Salvador metropolitan area, in Bahia, with goal to make some brief remarks on the ensuing social and environmental impacts, as well to consider ways to subsidize regional development and integrated planning actions on this area.

"Yes, nós temos bananas!" Praias, condomínios fechados, Resorts e problemas sócio-ambientais

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Limonad
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
The North ◽  
Littoral Area ◽  
Specific Part ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

A proliferação de condomínios, resorts e clubes turísticos na orla do litoral brasileiro, e o aumento do turismo internacional, contribuíram para converter em objeto de consumo várias partes da costa brasileira, acarretando uma expansão geográfica indiscriminada das atividades de turismo e veraneio, que colocam em risco a diversidade de um dos mais ricos conjuntos de ecossistemas costeiros tropicais do mundo. A intenção deste ensaio é levantar a extensão e as características da ocupação costeira relacionadas à multiplicação de condomínios, resorts e aglomerados urbanos em um trecho específico da orla litorânea do Nordeste do Brasil: a Costa dos Coqueiros ao norte da região metropolitana de Salvador na Bahia, com a meta de fazer algumas breves considerações sobre os impactos sócio-ambientais resultantes, bem como propor elementos que subsidiem ações integradas de planejamento e desenvolvimento regional para a área. Abstract The proliferation of gated communities, resorts and tourism clubs on Brazil's coastline area, besides the international tourism increase, had contributed to convert many seaside places into consumption objects, bringing along an indiscriminate geographicexpansion of tourism activities, jeopardizing the diversity of one of the world's richest tropical coastal ecosystems. This paper intends to verify the extension and characteristics of the coastal occupation related to gated communities concerning the multiplication of condominiums, resorts and urban agglomerations in a specific part of Brazil's northeastern littoral area: the "Coconut Coast" on the north of  Salvador metropolitan area, in Bahia, with goal to make some brief remarks on the ensuing social and environmental impacts, as well to consider ways to subsidize regional development and integrated planning actions on this area.

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