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作者

Sonia Roitman;Redento B. Recio

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.35,Issue5

语言

英文

关键字

作者单位

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ;Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

摘要

Income inequality continues to increase worldwide and is highly visible in cities. This rising income inequality, along with the growing upper-middle class, has accelerated the development of gated communities (GC) as a desired housing for the ‘successful’ groups and a manifestation of how the city reproduces inequality. We analyze GC development in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and offer a typology for this housing option in that country where income inequality has been growing and is now a serious government concern. Although the early 2000s saw isolated GC in only a few cities, now they are developing vigorously. This article contributes twofold. First, it provides evidence on the emergence and features of GC. Second, it shows a relationship between income inequality, social differences and GC development for upper-middle class residents in Indonesia. We argue that there is a mutually reinforcing relationship between inequality and GC: increasing income inequality leads to higher number of GC and this material artefact entrenches ‘emplaced inequality’.