Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America,Used

Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America,Used

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In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these exclusive neighborhoods. What has sparked this alarming trend?Behind the Gates is Low's revealing account of what life is like inside these suburban fortresses. After years researching and interviewing families in Long Island, New York and San Antonio, Texas, Low provides an inside view of gated communities to help explain why people flee to these enclaves. Parents with children, young married couples, 'emptynesters,' and retirees express their need for safety, their secret fears of a more ethnically diverse America, and their desire to recapture the closeknit, picketfenced communities of their childhood. Ironically, she shows, gated neighborhoods are in fact no safer than other suburbs, and many who move there are disheartened by the insularity and restrictive rules of the community.Low probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of her subjects to portray the subtle change in American middleclass values marked by the emergence of enclosed communities in the suburbs.

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