Short Questionnaire For Dissertation

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I would be extremely grateful if anyone could fill out the following questionnaire, which would help me finish off my dissertation:

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It might help if you explain the terms 'social mixed housing' and 'gated community'. Can't say I've ever come across them before.
 
Bunka said:
It might help if you explain the terms 'social mixed housing' and 'gated community'. Can't say I've ever come across them before.
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I agree. I know of them as I'm a town planner, but doubt it will mean much to Joe Public. Jargon should always be explained when it is essential to the question or statement.

Slightly off topic... What subject do you study?
 
Social Mixed housing - Developer wants to build a load of flats/appartments on a piece of land, local council says yes but 25% has to be affordable housing for council tennants or key workers etc. Then you end up with a 4 story block of appartments where the 1st 2 floors are council tennants and the top two are sold for £300,000 each for what are very similar properties.

Gated communities - You go and live in a community that is fenced off, quite popular in america but are gaining a foothold here too. Need security passes to get in etc


Edit: I study geography.
 
M0T said:
Social Mixed housing - Developer wants to build a load of flats/appartments on a piece of land, local council says yes but 25% has to be affordable housing for council tennants or key workers etc. Then you end up with a 4 story block of appartments where the 1st 2 floors are council tennants and the top two are sold for £300,000 each for what are very similar properties.

Gated communities - You go and live in a community that is fenced off, quite popular in america but are gaining a foothold here too.
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what do you mean fenced off?

what if you live in neither.
 
Done, good luck with your dissertation.

//edit if you live in neither then I'd put down N/A (and did). Fenced off as in in a compound of sorts, usually with a private security force from what I know of the American model.
 
lozza23_uk said:
what do you mean fenced off?

what if you live in neither.
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Question 5 is if you live in neither.

Fenced off as in a private estate, there are literally communites that are completely surrounded by fences with security guards patrolling the entrance. Its like the complete opposite of social mixing and has been getting popular with more middle class people, whereas before it was only really the rich that would live in them.
 
lozza23_uk said:
what do you mean fenced off?

what if you live in neither.
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gated community = fence with "**** off you chavs" written on it :p

well essentially, security guards are essentially there offering that message. More and more people want to live in an area and be able to come outside their house without a group of thugs wandering the streets that are looking for someone to screw with.

But not only that, no traffic means its safer in general vacinity for walking dogs, kids to ride bikes, less noise, no public walking around means no rubbish on streets and bubble gum marks ever 3 inches on the pavement. When i gets the money, its the kind of place i'd want to move to. clean, nice, pleasant, less aggro, safer.
 
Ah, the gated community, fascism at it's best! I have a friend who's parents went to live in one of those so called "safe-havens" and apparently it's like living under a constant curfew. Even though this guy is 21 he's not allowed to be out after 22:00 and all house lights are to be off by midnight, under pain of execution (it's a fine actually, but you get the idea).
 
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