Segregated Communities
Economic segregation is scarcely new. In fact, zoning and city planning were designed in part to preserve the position of the privileged but segregated communities go farther in several respects. They create physical barriers to access. And they privatize community space, not merely individual space. Many of these communities also privatize civic responsibilities such as police protection and communal services such as schools, recreation, and entertainment. The new developments create a private world that shares little with its neighbors or the larger political system. This fragmentation undermines the very concept of community life.The forting up phenomenon also has enormous consequences. By allowing some citizens to internalize and to exclude others from sharing in their economic privilege, it aims directly at the conceptual base of community and citizenship. The old notions of community mobility are torn apart by these changes in community patterns. What is the measure of nationhood when the divisions between neighborhoods require armed patrols and electric fencing to keep out other citizens? When public services and even local government are privatized, when the community of responsibility stops at the subdivision gates,
------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a section of ?Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation?, Teresa P. R. Caldeira looks directly at the construction and development of segregated communities in Sao Paolo, Brazil and Los Angeles, California. For the purposes of this essay, I will use Caldeira?s essay to further understand the similar developments that are occurring in Manila, the capital of The Republic of the Philippines. The private city is within the compounds of the segregated communities in Manila, is only for the use of its tenants. Segregated communities not only protect leisure amenities and lifestyle enclaves, but economic and social status. The elite members of the Philippine population have their roots directly in the walls and gates that surround them. By building segregated communities, its inhabitants lose touch with the city outside their city, they become unaware of the plight of the less privileged citizens of their country which in turn fuels the continuous separation between the rich and the poor. These developments feed on exclusionary aspirations and the desire to differentiate. The services of gate guards and security patrols add to the prestige of exclusivity; residents value the simple presence of a security force more than any service they may actually provide. When the gates are manned, security guards double as a sort of concierge, providing notification of arriving! In Manila, segregated communities have been created with private streets. The public streets are hopelessly congested, but with a pass to the private villages one can successfully navigate the city. This leads to tw
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