Gated Community Living: A study of contemporary residential development approach in Indian Cities

Authors

  • Shantanu Chitgopkar, Shanta Pragyan Dash, Sonali Walimbe

Abstract

Gated communities are growing in most of the cities in India. This phenomenon was one of the most popular patterns of growth worldwide and gained admiration in the last half of the 20th century in India. It was initially a response in to the safety, security, privileges and class need of Indian homes that are not resident. Gated communities with a range of scale and styles are built that differ across states, city centers and neighborhoods. To date, hundreds of families across Indian cities choose to live in the gated communities over ungated communities and neighborhoods.

This paper focuses on Indian residents' perception on a gated community. It aims to explore the factors of residents’ preference for stay in gated communities in Indian cities identifying the attributes for their choice of selection. The study asserts that each resident chooses to live in these communities for inculcating certain values, such as community significance, prestige, lifestyle, or security. It adopts an empirical and qualitative analysis approach by questionnaires. The results show that 'life style' is the key value correlated with residents' preferences to live in communities of India, in addition to the preference of open spaces that can be accomplished by its spatial characters such as scale, shape, visibility, accessibility, architectural and landscape features.

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Published

2020-11-02

How to Cite

Shantanu Chitgopkar, Shanta Pragyan Dash, Sonali Walimbe. (2020). Gated Community Living: A study of contemporary residential development approach in Indian Cities. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 17(9), 7437 - 7451. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5528