has increased in recent years due to the growing availability of remote working, and amenities like swimming pools can be found more often than in Montevideo. They have also become more accessible to the professional middle class as pre-designed new builds have become common, as opposed to the older model of requiring individual owners to buy a plot and then hire their own builder. The resulting economies of scale have helped to keep average prices lower than they otherwise would be. In popular media In comics Early in The Walking Dead comic book series, Rick Grimes attempts to settle in a gated condominium neighbourhood. This move proves disastrous as one of the group members is killed after the survivors realize the neighbourhood is infested with zombies. In film John Duigan's Lawn Dogs (1997), starring Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell, films a young girl from a gated community who befriends a landscape worker, and examines the societal repercussions of their friendship. Mexican film La Zona, directed by Rodrigo Plá, talks about a gated community invaded by a group of very young and poor children. In the ABC Family movie Picture This starring Ashley Tisdale, Drew lives in a gated community called Camelot. In the Spanish movie Secuestrados, kidnappers take the daughter of a family living in an allegedly secure gated community. In the 2007 animated movie Alvin and the Chipmunks, the chipmunks and their guardian Dave Seville live in a gated community. In the 2022 film Cheaper by the Dozen, the Baker family relocated from Los Angeles to a gated community in Calabasas, California where they moved into a larger house there to accommodate their large family. By the end of the film, the Baker family move back to Los Angeles. In games Grand Theft Auto IV has a gated community called Beachgate, a fictional rendition of Sea Gate, Brooklyn. It includes the home of early antagonist Mikhail Faustin. In literature (Alphabetical by author's last name) In Margaret Atwood's novel Oryx and Crake, the characters Snowman and Crake live and work in corporate-owned gated communities known as compounds. J.G. Ballard has examined the phenomenon in his novella Running Wild (1988) and in his novel Super-Cannes (2000). T.C. Boyle's novel The Tortilla Curtain (1995) is set in and near a gated community in California. The novel Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler, takes place in a world where much of civilization