Typology of gated communities in the GCC region and central Europe
Alhato, Abdelrahman (2021)
Alhato, Abdelrahman
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202205067552
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202205067552
Tiivistelmä
Gated communities or residential compounds spread throughout the continents in the twentieth century, with little literature defining their types and classifications. The study aimed to analyse and identify typologies of gated communities and connect them to the real estate development process from the developers’ perspective by assessing existing typologies and studying the housing market in the respected regions. The literature reviewed revealed that the phenomenon emerged in a part of the Gulf Corporation Council as family and cultural enclaves after the oil exploitation period, unlike eastern Europe, where gated communities emerged for socio-political reasons. The characteristics of typologies in theory and in the respected regions were revealed through published research on gated communities’ typologies and comparative literature review case studies. While the gated community market still targets mainly highly paid individuals, it has proven its worth by retaining a considerable market share and filling a gap in the housing demand, which is the need for safe and private residence. The results indicate that Typology identification through series of ten proposed factors is a method to accurately understand the development and choose the most suitable typology that fulfils developers’ interests and includes the knowledge published by former scholars on the subject. On this basis, it is recommended that developers incorporate typology studies and methods to improve the real estate development process’ quality.