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Author Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit, author.

Title Locked in, locked out : gated communities in a Puerto Rican city / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Series The city in the twenty-first century
City in the twenty-first century book series.
Contents Prologue : The Native Outsider -- Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor : Past and Present -- Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor : An Experiment in Class Integration -- "Precaution : Security Knives in the Gates" -- Community : Where Rights Begin and End -- The Secret Gardens -- Neighbors More Remote than Strangers -- Epilogue : The Gated Library -- Methodology
Summary In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce - the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system - became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables" out but also shut them in. Ubiquitous and inescapable, gates continue to dominate present-day Ponce, delineating space within government and commercial buildings, schools, prisons, housing developments, parks, and churches. In this book, the author examines four communities in Ponce, showing how gates - in both physical and symbolic ways - distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social inequalities, and cement boundary lines of class and race
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-208) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Sociology, Urban -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 20th century
Gated communities -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
SUBJECT Ponce (P.R.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Puerto Rico -- Ponce
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012041495
ISBN 9780812208207
081220820X