国外城市封闭社区及其治理

有门有墙、公共空间私有化的封闭社区是后现代城市化的一种表现形式,它不仅是城市社会经济发展的阶段产物,也对城市的社会、经济、政治、文化等各诸多方面产生了极大影响。1990年代以来,封闭社区在世界各国迅速发展和扩散,引起了各国学者对于社会发展和城市发展之间关系的广泛讨论。但是,我国学术界目前的相关研究较少,尚处于萌芽阶段。文章通过对国外城市封闭社区研究成果的总结,探讨了这类社区的形成、发展及其对城市发展的影响,并初步探索了对封闭社区的治理,旨在为我国相关研究提供理论和实践借鉴。

A STUDY ON THE GOVERNANCE OF FOREIGN GATED COMMUNITIES

Gated communities with gate and walls and privatized public spaces represent a form of postmodern urbanism.It is not only the outcome of urban social-economic development,but also giving rise to significant effects on all facets of urban life,such as society economy,polity and culture etc.The rapid growth and spreading of such communities in many regions of the world,has triggered a widespread discussion about the relations between social and urban development since the 1990s'.However,relevant studies in China are very little and the local authorities have paid little attentions to the phenomenon.Based on a summary of the foreign studies,this paper firstly analyses the developing phase and the mechanisms of gated communities,and then explores the reflections on the urban spaces and how the western countries govern it.And finally,the author brings forward that the public government needs to become stronger and more democratic to induct the sustainable development of gated communities,and at the same time to call on the supporting and cultivating from the civil society.