Secession or cohesion? exploring the impact of gated communities

Community Cohesion in Crisis?: New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 239-257

  Blandy, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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