Publication at Faculty of Science |
2014
Abstract
The aim of this article is to present gated communities in Prague in the context of postmodern urbanization. The article focuses on spatial distribution of gated communities, their social structure and cause of emergence of these residential objects.
The research is based on various scientific methods. The article shows that there is no statistically demonstrable logic of the spatial distribution of gated communities in Prague.
Particularly socially strong population and rich foreigners live in these residential areas. The emergence of gated communities in Prague is linked with various processes of postmodern urbanism (internationalization of capital and labour, social polarization, fragmentation, neoliberalism or postfordism).