Locked In, Locked Out : : Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City / / Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores.

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&quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 19 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue. The Native Outsider
  • 1. Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor: Past and Present
  • 2. Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor: An Experiment in Class Integration
  • 3. "Precaution: Security Knives in the Gates"
  • 4. Community: Where Rights Begin and End
  • 5. The Secret Gardens
  • 6. Neighbors More Remote than Strangers
  • Epilogue. The Gated Library
  • Methodology
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments