Title: Nothing to recommend it.
Product review: I've studied the "Gated Community" debates for years, professionally, and this book hasn't a single original idea in it--the research is rehash, the conclusions tepid, and the writing itself is sallow at best, and sophmoric otherwise. One suspects this project was designed for Ivory Tower purposes, as the authors give no indication of ever having been involved in Urban Planning in any way--a necessary prerequisite for a monograph such as this, I'm afraid.... MY suggestion to the potential reader is to simply relfect on the obvious issues at stake in any discussion of Gated Communities, and *think*--for the present volume is sorely lacking in intellectual rigor as well.
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