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Behind the Gates
- Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
Af: Setha Low
Engelsk
Bogcover for Behind the Gates af Setha Low, 9780415950411
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780415950411
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415950414
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 aug 2004
Størrelse i cm:
23,0 x 15,5 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
30 aug 2004
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Behind the Gates

- Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America
Af: Setha Low
Engelsk
Paperback 2004
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In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend?
Behind the Gates is Low''s revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married couples, "empty-nesters," and retirees express their need for safety, their secret fears of a more ethnically diverse America, and their desire to recapture the close-knit, picket-fenced communities of their childhood. Ironically, she shows, gated neighborhoods are in fact no safer than other suburbs, and many who move there are disheartened by the insularity and restrictive rules of the community.
Low probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of her subjects to portray the subtle change in American middle-class values marked by the emergence of enclosed communities in the suburbs.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780415950411
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0415950414
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 aug 2004
Størrelse i cm:
23,0 x 15,5 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
30 aug 2004
Forfatter(e):
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