Locked In, Locked Out : Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Communautes privees > Aspect social > Porto Rico > Ponce > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sociologie urbaine > Porto Rico > Ponce > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Gated communities > Social aspects > Puerto Rico > Ponce > History > 20th century.
Sociology, Urban > Puerto Rico > Ponce > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rico > Ponce.
Ponce (P.R.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : The Native Outsider
  • Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor : Past and Present
  • Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor : An Experiment in Class Integration
  • "Precaution : Security Knives in the Gates"
  • Community : Where Rights Begin and End
  • The Secret Gardens
  • Neighbors More Remote than Strangers
  • Epilogue : The Gated Library
  • Methodology.

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