TY - JOUR T1 - Secured residential enclaves in the Delhi region: Impact of indigenous and transnational models JF - City, Culture and Society Y1 - 2016 A1 - V. Dupont KW - Comparative Urbanism KW - Delhi KW - Gated Communities KW - Non-resident Indians KW - Segregation AB -

This paper examines the development of secured residential enclaves in India, especially in Delhi. It expounds the conditions of their emergence and success: although gated communities are a market driven development boosted by economic liberalisation reforms, they are also embedded in indigenous traditions of residential segregation and enclosure as well as colonial practices. The Non-Resident Indians (NRI) have further played a significant role in the production of these new residential spaces. Significant appeal factors are explored: desire for security, retreat from failing government and the polluted city, search for exclusivity, elitism and social homogeneity. Tapping into the Indian diaspora market and the middle-class’ aspirations for social status, promoters have projected their residential enclaves as a way of “global living” in a healthy environment, reserved to a privileged cosmopolitan elite. Yet, gated communities in Delhi are not a mere exogenous Western production; rather, they are spaces in-between the global and the local. The findings are based on direct field observations in Delhi and a review of advertisements by real estate developers in various media. The analysis pursues an Indo-Chinese comparative perspective with reference to the research of Marie Sander (this issue) on gated communities in Shanghai.

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VL - 7 SP - 227 - 236 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877916615000284?via%3Dihub CP - 4 J1 - City, Culture and Society ID - AZ-CF-182907 M3 - 10.1016/j.ccs.2015.03.004 SN - 18779166 ER -