Closed urban neighborhoods govern themselves without outside institutions

Evidence

In its “ideal” form, the concentrated urban village is a small settlement, set intact in the middle of a large city. All its inhabitants know one another personally, their relationships are long-lasting-from birth to grave-and whatever one knows, the others are likely to know too. The ideal neighborhood village neither needs nor requires the intrusion of “outside” organizations. It polices itself, it cares for itself, it plans for itself: “Consider,” he stated, “that you were observed smoking under the stairway, not only by your father but by all the neighborhood. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 787