

Gated Communities - Social Issues
The development of gated communities seems to be part of the features of the housing industry especially in Klang Valley due to high returns and increasing demand from the market. The appreciation in values as a well as the investment returns makes it more attractive to both buyers and developers. Nevertheless gated community in Klang valley are mostly of high end properties, some even touched millions of Ringgit per unit. With this kind of price, only certain segment of Klan


Gated Communities - A World Phenomenon
Gated communities are residential areas within restricted access such that normally public spaces have been privatized. The earliest gated communities were ancient fortified cities. The first walled cities in the New World were Spanish fort towns in the Carribean. Later during nineteenth century, some residential areas were constructed with gates and private streets as in St Louis (Blakely & Snyder, 1997). Typical unit in close neighbourhood in Portland Place in the 1930s Typ