Gated-ness, Income Segregation and Neighbourhood Cohesion in Two Western Canadian Metropolises

Youssef, Karim Wagih Fawzi

Gated-ness, Income Segregation and Neighbourhood Cohesion in Two Western Canadian Metropolises

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dc.contributor.advisor	Tsenkova, Sasha
dc.contributor.author	Youssef, Karim Wagih Fawzi
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-03T21:47:19Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-23T07:00:45Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02-03
dc.date.submitted	2015	en
dc.description.abstract	This research investigated the relation between the degree of gated-ness of a neighbourhood and the level of neighbourhood cohesion among its residents. Such an investigation was prompted by the current practice of municipal planners for promoting a grid pattern of streets for neighbourhoods and linking such a pattern with principles of resilience and connectedness while at the same time condemning altogether the enclave pattern of curvilinear streets, loops and cul-de-sacs as being non-resilient and non-sustainable. Municipal planners seem to overlook the reasons behind the morphological development of postwar suburbs as well as overlook, in particular, socio-psychological effects of their physical structure and access configuration. This research introduces new typologies in order to differentiate neighbourhoods along those two structural aspects. By undertaking a comparative analysis of four case studies in two Western Canadian metropolises, this research argues that semi-gated neighbourhoods raise cohesion among residents. The major findings of the research are that residents’ sense of neighbourhood cohesion, for both its affective and interactive dimensions, increased in the case of neighbourhoods that had a sense of enveloping space, a sense of entry into a domain that is signalled by the degree of exclusion and seclusion of the development. This research does not claim that all neighbourhoods need to be single access ones. Rather, it suggests that in as much as a neighbourhood is successful in conveying a cohesive image for such a domain, in as much do residents identify with the neighbourhood and with each other. The aesthetic quality of such a domain plays a role of in-forming residents who gradually develop an embodied space such that residents of the neighbourhood could be identifiable from outsiders. Such a process of in-forming and embodiment sets a common ground for social acceptance, sense of familiarity, and facilitates social interaction among residents who have developed common norms and values over time.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Youssef, K. W. (2015). Gated-ness, Income Segregation and Neighbourhood Cohesion in Two Western Canadian Metropolises (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26259	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26259
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2078
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Environmental Design
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Anthropology--Cultural
dc.subject	Urban and Regional Planning
dc.subject	Psychology--Social
dc.subject.classification	cohesion	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gated Communities	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Calgary	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Surrey	en_US
dc.title	Gated-ness, Income Segregation and Neighbourhood Cohesion in Two Western Canadian Metropolises
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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