@article{ref1,
title="The security grills on apartments in gated communities: trading-off 3D and 2D landscapes of fear in China",
journal="Cities",
year="2019",
author="Sun, Guibo and Webster, Chris",
volume="90",
number="",
pages="113-121",
abstract="In China, as elsewhere, gates are symbolically or actually associated with an escape from crime and insecurity. The manifest phenomenon of security grills on apartments inside gated communities, as a recent retrofitting, is not well understood. We conducted a household survey of 2404 participants in 46 communities in a city, to investigate why China's gated community apartments have ubiquitously installed security grills. <br><br>RESULTS show gated communities have relatively low crime rates, but 84% of residents believed their gates could not prevent penetration by non-residents. For a unit increase of the belief in the inefficacy of 2D security (community's gates and guards) when holding other factors at a fixed value, there is an 18% increase in the probability of trading-off to install 3D security (grills on the individual apartment). The prevalence of apartment-based security grills, representing a phase-change in the dominant mode of the landscape of fear, is highly relevant to current ungating policy context that is urging a rethink about gated community development.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0264-2751",
doi="10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.003"
}