文档介绍：本科毕业设计(论文)
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HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS, SECURITY WALLS,
AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN LAS VEGAS
Privately governed residential enclaves known mon interest housing developments (CIDs), many of them gated and walled, are the predominant form of new housing in America’s fastest growing cities and suburbs. Over the last 25 years, this massive privatization of local government functions has changed the appearance anizational structure of American urban trend is not a passing fashion but an institutional transformation reflecting the ideological shift toward privatism characteristic of the neoliberal consensus. Specifically, the CID revolution is driven by three main forces. Developers pursue higher density in order to maintain profits despite rising land costs. Local governments seek growth and increased tax revenues with minimal public expenditure. And many middle and upper class home-buyers, fearful of crime and disenchanted with government, are in search of a privatized utopia—or, as I call it, privatopia--offering security, a homogenous population, and managerial private government.
This transformation resembles the construction of a physical and institutional pomerium, or sanctified wall, around the affluent portions of an increasingly divided society. Nowhere in the United States is this transformation more visible than in Las Vegas, Nevada--the fastest growing city in the nation, and one that exemplifies the national and global trend toward placing tourism at the center of the urban economy and reshaping the spatial, social, and political order accordingly. Las Vegas area local governments require developers to construct virtually all new housing in CIDs, and gated security developments are popular. So popular, in fact, that non-CID e under pressure to emulate CIDs. One such neighborhood, Bonanza Village, was literally walled in by the City of Las Vegas, over the protest of many of its residents, in order to make the old neighborhood resemble con