These days, the well-heeled and the well-known are flocking to gated communities.
Multiple mixed used social and commercial developments designed to be affordable and professional could help to reintegrate a population that has grown accustomed to gated communities.
After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.
Assuming Edwards was fearful of the affair's becoming public, wouldn't he wonder how she could just find her way from the Tarheel State to a gated community in wealthy Santa Barbara?
The 19, 000-square-foot Casa Casuarina in South Beach has 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, and a centerpiece to the gated compound is a 54-foot-long pool lined in 24-karat gold and adorned with mosaics, frescos, statues, arched doorway and a courtyard, according to real estate agents with Coldwell Banker.
In poor areas of Chicago, residents have set up gated communities to ward off crime.
The next morning, when Aubry was parked in Berry's gated driveway to hand over his daughter to the nanny to spend Thanksgiving Day with her mother, Martinez approached him and said, "We need to talk, " Aubry said.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one gated community seems to have been taken over by black rap stars.
Rising crime and social unrest has led to the creation of 'gated communities' where wealth is concentrated.
According to the American Housing Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in gated communities rose to almost 11 million households in 2009, up from slightly more than 7 million in 2001, though the numbers may actually be significantly higher, Low said.
But to members of the most exclusive gated communities, deluxe perks like these are becoming standard.
The second phase, which includes 360, 000 square feet boutique hotel and the gated village is scheduled to be completed by the second or third quarter of 2010.
See, I think what we're seeing is because - you know, we have the war in Iraq, which has now lasted longer than World War II - because of hurricane Katrina, it's becoming harder and harder for professional athletes to live in figurative and literal gated communities.
The rich, feeling left out from the masses are forced to segregate themselves in country clubs, gated communities and private schools.
For so long, the world of investments has been a gated one, only available to the 7.2 million Americans (1% of the US population) who are classified as accredited investors.
Breezy Point residents say the area's commitment to rebuild is rooted in the identities of a gated community like theirs or a growing beach community such as the Rockaways.
New Cairo City is a planned community about 30km east of downtown, home to many international universities, luxury high rises and gated communities, as well as shopping malls and golf courses.
We are used to seeing footballers in the United Kingdom living in luxurious gated communities, away from the prying eyes of the press.
While the senior executive is comfortable in his lavish gated community home, the employee is struggling to save enough for a down payment on a house.
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The traffic was thick, especially as we got to the outskirts, where the newly rich live in gated communities with names like Aix-en-Provence and Little Venice.
The Estates of the Oaks, an ultra-exclusive enclave of about 55 homes within the gated Oaks community in Calabasas is home base to a number of A-list types.
Jackson, in a hilltop mansion in in the same gated Calabasas, California, development that is home to Justin Bieber.
To the left is the remnants of the Magnolia Projects, gated up.
But Capt Tiernan said British troops were making progress, and in his case, his company was creating a "gated community" in one part of Helmand province to protect local people from insurgents.
Mr Martin, it turns out, had been walking back to the house of his father's girlfriend in the gated community, having bought some sweets and iced tea at a nearby corner store.
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However, it's certainly true that owners in gated communities will pay higher homeowner's association fees to keep up the entrance, maintain outdoor cameras and gates and possibly pay guards' salaries.
The earliest gated residential communities in the U.S. date to the 1850s, but it was during the Country Club Suburb period in the early 1900s until about 1929 when they began to proliferate.
In their gated enclaves the wealthy will use deeds, contracts and covenants to police snoopy neighbors as strictly as they police lawn ornaments and gaudy paint schemes.
Crystal Zohner lives in a gated community in Las Vegas and said her neighbors are rallying to send a clear message that they are united against crime.
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While eliminating that gated executive parking lot may just be a symbol, it seems to me that it is a powerful one.
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