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Oakland’s History World War II to 1970
Questions

Renee Williams

1) What factors – political, economic, cultural and/or ideological -- account for the growth of gated communities in the U. S. in the past 20 years?

Over the last 20 years, street crime, visible poverty, deteriorating infrastructure, decaying homes and boarded-up businesses were becoming increasingly common features of city life, but we rarely asked ourselves how this deterioration in the world around us is affecting the way we look at the world and our contributions towards making it a better place.

In not asking that question, we underestimate the importance of urban decay as a problem in its own right, and the degree to which it promotes other social ills. Inner city decay is part of a dangerous and silent progression that is not being given the attention it deserves: the fragmentation of our society into potentially or actually hostile camps i.e., “gated communities,� barricaded off from each......

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