Saturday, February 21, 2015

Gated communities: Luxury or ghetto? – GazetaPrawna.pl

Gated communities: Luxury or ghetto? – GazetaPrawna.pl

Do you live on the estate grodzonym?

No, I have only intercom. But in my immediate environment is extremely fenced estate Castle in Krakow. Adjacent to the cooperative blocks from the 80s, where residents next to the existing fence erected another, so that their own.

And what is double protection?

found that residents of the estate grodzonego go through the gate into the cooperative, so there may have their pets – saying wprost- deal with physiological needs. After the rebellion of the cooperative, or at least part of the local board, so now is the next fence. Fence in the fence. Private estate fence and the fence behind him cooperative, also extending through the entire length of the plot. What’s interesting – although this case is just a month ago or two – this double fencing is quite a common phenomenon.

Why do Poles choose closed housing? Like life behind the fence?

Today it is rather a question of demand. In the primary market, it is difficult now to find another job – those who want to buy an apartment at first hand, are to a certain extent, not convicted. The question is whether it’s still a choice. Maybe it’s the need? Besides all government programs prefer new property investments, invested far and implemented under the city – where land is cheapest. Fencing is then an additional lure for the client to be – according to the declarations sellers – a guarantee of safety.

Why this fear? After all, 80 percent in the polls. Poles maintains that feel safe in their neighborhood, and 60 per cent. – That Poland is a safe country.

But in this case is not about security in the physical sense, or even for the protection of property. We believe that through the walls surrounding the property its value drops dramatically. Besides, you have to take into account the cultural causes, that is our commitment to the idea of ​​a country house. And it does not always get us on it, we reach for an intermediate solution – housing fenced, where there are gardens, communal green space, including eg. A garden on the roof. This is nothing but a substitute for a suburban house, which they have the same names emphasize such settlements, for example. Green Zacisze, Forest Glade, birch grove, Beech Manor, Azure Valley, Villas Laguna, Green Mieszkanko II and Sunny Slope.

What is then fenced estate? About what space actually talking about?

A basic definition says that it is semi-space, which is on the board of a private, that is, for example, communities. It is surrounded by a wall or fence, and may, but need not, be monitored or guarded. It is located either in the center or at a faster rate, on the outskirts of cities.

What else distinguishes this space?

The principle of maximum densification. To maintain the minimum standards, green spaces often coincides parking, which does not interfere with it, so all the time to talk about them green spaces. For this purpose, for example openwork plate-like honeycomb structure between which the seeded grass.

In a folder color development is always perfect. Not only green, but with equal sidewalks, clean walls and staircases niepomazanymi graffiti. Even if ugly, that’s for sure order. What developers tempt customers from years ago, and then try to convince them to buy today?

In the early 90s, when I began to study, such settlements have been described as something alien, sometimes even exotic . Written about the “oasis of luxury”, “piece of America”, “symbol of modernity”. At the end of the decade, when there were already more in Poland, especially in Warsaw, began to be seen simply as a status symbol. Emphasized standard and access to wyestetyzowanej, ordered the public space, which is often lacking in the cities. So instead induce changes in the public space, we prefer to pay for access to a nice semi-public space, but rather a semi-private.


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