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Article: The security grills on apartments in gated communities: Trading-off 3D and 2D landscapes of fear in China
Title | The security grills on apartments in gated communities: Trading-off 3D and 2D landscapes of fear in China |
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Keywords | China Gated community Perception Sense of security Social environment |
Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cities |
Citation | Cities, 2019, v. 90, p. 113-121 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In China, as elsewhere, gates are symbolically or actually associated with an escape from crime and insecurity. The manifest phenomenon of security grills on apartments inside gated communities, as a recent retrofitting, is not well understood. We conducted a household survey of 2404 participants in 46 communities in a city, to investigate why China's gated community apartments have ubiquitously installed security grills. Results show gated communities have relatively low crime rates, but 84% of residents believed their gates could not prevent penetration by non-residents. For a unit increase of the belief in the inefficacy of 2D security (community's gates and guards) when holding other factors at a fixed value, there is an 18% increase in the probability of trading-off to install 3D security (grills on the individual apartment). The prevalence of apartment-based security grills, representing a phase-change in the dominant mode of the landscape of fear, is highly relevant to current ungating policy context that is urging a rethink about gated community development. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/267384 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 6.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.733 |
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dc.contributor.author | Sun, G | - |
dc.contributor.author | Webster, CJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-18T09:00:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-18T09:00:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cities, 2019, v. 90, p. 113-121 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0264-2751 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/267384 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In China, as elsewhere, gates are symbolically or actually associated with an escape from crime and insecurity. The manifest phenomenon of security grills on apartments inside gated communities, as a recent retrofitting, is not well understood. We conducted a household survey of 2404 participants in 46 communities in a city, to investigate why China's gated community apartments have ubiquitously installed security grills. Results show gated communities have relatively low crime rates, but 84% of residents believed their gates could not prevent penetration by non-residents. For a unit increase of the belief in the inefficacy of 2D security (community's gates and guards) when holding other factors at a fixed value, there is an 18% increase in the probability of trading-off to install 3D security (grills on the individual apartment). The prevalence of apartment-based security grills, representing a phase-change in the dominant mode of the landscape of fear, is highly relevant to current ungating policy context that is urging a rethink about gated community development. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cities | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cities | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Gated community | - |
dc.subject | Perception | - |
dc.subject | Sense of security | - |
dc.subject | Social environment | - |
dc.title | The security grills on apartments in gated communities: Trading-off 3D and 2D landscapes of fear in China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Sun, G: gbsun@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Webster, CJ: cwebster@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Sun, G=rp02274 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Webster, CJ=rp01747 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.003 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85061350939 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 296997 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 90 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 113 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 121 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000471737900011 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0264-2751 | - |