Many small municipalities function as exclusionary wealth enclaves
Evidence
Hundreds of villages are, in reality, little more than restrictive covenants, or zoning ordinances, except that they have the name and the form and the power of a municipality. The fear of crime adds to this impulse to retreat behind the invisible walls and barriers of these little enclaves. And, more and more, people with money retreat behind visible walls and gates, into “privatopias” ruled (and rather autocratically) by homeowner associations. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3796
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to zoning as middle-class spatial ordering from Lofland, and to environmental-justice framing of exclusionary suburbs. — connects to: Preindustrial cities spatially managed unknown foreigners by type. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 266; Larger states breed more provincial local communities than smaller states do — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 620
- SEED: Angle: how the nominal ‘local democracy’ of tiny municipalities actually functions as private property governance — gates by another name.
Broader Connections
- Larger states breed more provincial local communities than smaller states do
#complicates(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 620 - Preindustrial cities spatially managed unknown foreigners by type.
#qualifies(0.72) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 266