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Gating Housing in Sweden: Walling in the Privileged, Walling out the Public
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5822-6868
2018 (English)In: Urban Walls: Political and Cultural Meanings of Vertical Structures and Surfaces / [ed] Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Mattias Kärrholm, Routledge, 2018Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The past two decades have witnessed an increase of housing surrounded by walls in the Swedish cityscape. Although Swedish cities do not have the equivalent of gated communities, in the sense of isolated islands of ‘incarceration’ or of a ‘fortress city’, this chapter shows that they are undergoing a process of material enclavism, resulting in urban gating and the construction of exclusive residential hotel housing. The main argument is that gated housing in Sweden reflects and reinforces the ongoing social and geographical polarization of the metropolitan regions. The practices of walling in and walling out, constructed through housing, are simultaneously hindering movement for the general public while supporting movement for privileged groups. Additionally, the concentration of services, amenities and access to physical and high-speed digital infrastructure in exclusive housing lead to new spaces of disaffiliation, or self-segregation, for privileged groups. The chapter concludes that the process of walling in and walling out is a development towards privatization and material enclavism, indicative of a shift in attitudes toward housing in Swedish politics.

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Routledge, 2018.
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Classical and Contemporary Social Theory, ISSN 2694-5150, E-ISSN 2694-5142
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Medical and Health Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-9028DOI: 10.4324/9780203730225-9Local ID: 24727ISBN: 9781138304338 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-9028DiVA, id: diva2:1406060
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2022-08-29Bibliographically approved

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