Day 1: Tuesday, 1 March 2005

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES (DAY 1)

Chair: Chris Webster

Changing the nature of the gated community

Edward Blakely

11:00 - 11:30

(In)security and urban discourses: a research agenda

Georg Glasze & Robert Pütz

Session 1: Urban insecurity: present and past

Chair: Setha Low

10:40 - 12:05

Gated communities in suburban Australia: the failure of an harmonious social model?

Gérald Billard & François Madoré

Periurban fragmentation and mobilities: Towards a new urban imaginary

Eric Charmes

Gated communities from the inside: A case study in Mexico City

Diana Sheinbaum

The political economy of territorial control in historical perspective: Comparing medieval and modern walled communities

P Stuart Robinson

Session 2: Urban insecurity in South Africa

Chair: Susan Liebermann

12:05 - 13:10

Assimilation, emigration, semigration, and integrartion: 'White' peoples' strategies for finding a comfort zone in post-apartheid South Africa

Richard Ballard

'Fear and loathing in Johannesburg': Constructing new urban identities within gated communities

Teresa Dirsuweit and Alex Wafer

Visible security in a non-gated residential area

Carina Coetzer

Session 3: Territoriality and physical control through different types of spatial intervention

Chair: Edward Blakely

13:50 - 15:30

Urban fragmentation and urban development of gated communities in two boroughs of the great santiago: huechuraba y peñalolen

Viviana Fernández Prajoux

"Hard enclosure" and "soft enclosure" in the gated communities: Some theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence in China

Guillaume Giroir

The emergence of a "City of Cages" - Informal measures of socio-spatial control in the neighbourhoods of Lima, Perú

Jörg Plöger

Los Angeles and the logic of the private urban system

Stéphane Degoutin

Chair: Mark Napier

Unravelling a bundle of rights: Pitfalls and prospects in multi-owned housing

Ann Dupuis, Sarah Blandy and Jenny Dixon

Social division and market processes

David Parsons

Gated communities: The new ideal way of life in Natal/RN - Brazil. (1995 - 2003)

Maria Floresia Pessoa de Souza e Silva

The freedom of exclusion: An American housing model in post-socialist Europe

Judit Bodnar

Chair: Stuart Robinson

The storm that rocks the boat? Analysing the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability

Karina Landman

Chair: Georg Glaze

Residential enclosure and the changing norms of social control: examples from Johannesburg and Windhoek

Elisabeth Peyroux

Gated communities and the poor: Functional integration in a context of aggressive capitalist colonization of lower class areas

Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo

Gated communities: Good for social inclusion and neighbourhood renewal?

Bill Smith-Bowers

Social practices and gated communities in intermediate cities. The case of Argentina.

Sonia Roitman

Spaces of exclusivity and rejection: Linkages between a security village and its poorer neighbour in a Cape Town master plan development

Charlotte Lemanski

Chair: Renaud le Groix

Towards a theory of urban fragmentation: A cross-cultural analysis of fear, privatisation and the State

Setha Low

Race, space and place in suburban Durban: An ethnographic assessment of gated community development

Matthew Durington

Chair: Elisabeth Peyroux

Private communities as the natural benchmark

Fred Foldvary

The impact of gated communities on property values: evidences of changes in real estate markets (Los Angeles, Paris 1990-2004)

Renaud le Goix

The rise of gated communities in ACCRA, Ghana: Between economic globalisation and local land markets

Richard J Grant

The effect that enclosing neighbourhoods has on property values

G R Altini and O A Akindele

Chair: Matthew Durington

Spatial fragmentation and urban citizenship - San Isidro: A heterogeneous suburb of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Katja Rohrbach

Saigon South, parallel city in the South. On the means and typology of neo-liberal urbanism

Peter Gotsch

Towards the privatization of security? Emerging forms of governance and urban fragmentation in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Claire Bénit and Marianne Morange

Chair: Sarah Blandy

"Space Patrols" The new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits. Contesting neoliberalization or the urban poor?

Volker Eick

Institutional design of privatising neighbourhood management in inner cities - lessons from Taiwan

Simon Chien Yuan Chen

Chair: Fred Foldvary

Territory, control and enclosure (presentation)
Territory, control and enclosure (paper)

Chris Webster