Engaging Socio-Spatial Fragmentation Through Public Domain: Gated Communities in the Greater Metropolitan Area, San Jose, Costa Rica

Gated communities exist in most urbanized contexts around the world and San José, Costa Rica is not the exception. Following the discourse of insecurity and the claim of building community with-in the confinement of the gates, new developments are constructed with a peripheral wall. As gated communities diversify to all available markets they...