Higher and middle income residents in Nairobi, Kenya have demonstrated a great craving forgated community housing. The phenomenon is manifested in all forms of residential property advertisements andin most new residential developments. The objective of this paper is to establish the drivers of the gated communitydevelopments in Nairobi County by identifying and documenting the push factors cau...

• You can have as much security as you want – What are you willing to give up to get it? • Security always involves trade-offs – If no airplanes flew, 9/11 couldn't have happened – Gated communities offer more security but less privacy • We make decisions every day about these trade-offs • To do it thoughtfully, we must understand: – How security works – The threats and risks – The costs

Despite negative perspectives on their consequences, gated communities continue to spread in cities due to structural reasons such as globalization and economic neo-liberalism. Hence, there is a need to seek for a way of achieving a balance and make these communities livable. Due to agreement with economic market perspectives, livability principles might offer a solution for mediating the socia...

Many cities in Europe still have walls left over from an earlier era. I been to the Tallinn, Estonia, and Valetta, Malta, which is particularly impressive as you approach harbor sea. These were built keep out invading armies, but they also kept bandits small bands of marauders. Inside walls, residents relatively safe.

The M/C/1 queue with multiple vacations and gated service discipline is considered. We first provide an alternative approach to derive the Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the limiting waiting time distribution, which reveals the stochastic structure of the gated vacation system. Next we discuss the regenerative cycle of the gated vacation system. Based on these considerations, we carry our a tim...

Previous studies of alarm design have concluded that the faster a mental representation of the cause of the alarm is activated, the quicker the adapted reaction. In order to select sounds that are quick to identify , an experiment was carried out using a gated stimulus paradigm with 117 everyday sounds. Almost half of the sounds were identified in less than 150 ms, including both classical alar...

A mechanism of a gated pore in a membrane is described. Fluxes of gas molecules pass through the pore and produce a pressure gradient in a process that challenges the second law.

This paper focuses on community and neighbourhood relations of two high-income districts in Ankara. A suburban and a more traditional urban community are contrasted via a field survey that focuses on attitudes toward certain community values and toward other citizens. The findings indicate that residents in both settings express similar values towards community and neighbourhood relations. Thei...

Residential block construction of big cities in China began in the 1950s, and four models had far-reaching influence on modern residential block in its development process, including unit compound and residential district in 1950s to 1980s, and gated community and open community in 1990s to now. Based on analysis of the four models’ fabric, the article takes residential blocks in Hangzhou west ...