Fear of native hostility drove the first settler structures into fortress-gated forms.
Evidence
The fear of native hostility meant that the ο¬rst act of settlement was a gated community, a fortress for housing the fearless settlers. Towning, and later urbanization, subsequently (one could even say consequently) more or less inevitably were to follow. β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1312
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the gated-community/segregation literature and South African spatial apartheid work; also resonates with the fortress-city theme in the Drake/Armada readings. β connects to: Fear of the native other shaped even the first colonial settlement as gated β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections onβ¦, 1312