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Building for a changing climate: the challenge for construction, planning and energy

sustainable practices, such as local food production and local water and energy provision; supplementing services that the government does or does not provide. In this case, as in the case of South Africa, urban gating facilitates social cohesion and sense of identity among residents within the gates. Chapters Seven and Eight look at Argentina and Mexico respectively and Chapter Nine focuses on France. The penultimate chapter, Chapter Ten, is perhaps the closest to home, the authors, Dupis and Dixon look at urban gating in New Zealand. The case study illustrated suggests that most residents of gated communities did not move into the development because of the gates, but rather because of the location and built form. For most residents the existence of gates was something that was only appreciated post-occupancy. Interestingly, Dupis and Dixon note that New Zealand gated community developers base their model of development on Gold Coast gated communities in Australia. The final chapter reiterates the findings of each case study and re-acknowledges the aim of the book (p. 132) ‘to give alternative readings in order to enable us to use a different range of lenses to appreciate this [urban gating] global phenomenon . . . .’ In summary, this book is a welcome addition to the body of knowledge around gated communities and contemporary patterns of residential development and governance. All the authors embed their case studies in a historical context, some more convincingly than others, and in doing so demonstrate a divergent, contextual and complex lineage of urban gating as a phenomenon. The editors’ commitment and passion for this topic is clearly evident in the introduction and conclusion of the book, and in their selection of chapter contributors. I recommend this book to anyone interested in residential planning and the quest for social well-being, sustainability and justice.