Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City

by Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

Book Overview

In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce--the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system--became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables" out but also shut them in. Ubiquitous and inescapable, gates continue to dominate present-day Ponce, delineating space within government and commercial buildings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224513X
• ISBN13: 9780812245134
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"