Matching Pairs Gated and Packaged SuburbiaOnline version Creating an aesthetically pleasing environment through branding and packaging. by Karim Youssef 1 The discourse of 'small-town' community is described as a 2 Aesthetic demand for particular styles tends to 3 Reasons for packaging and branding are 4 The function of the gate in prestige communities is 5 Foreign place name give signification to a place and suggest that they are 6 The entrepreneurial city is a phenomenon of 7 Prestige communities are also referred to as 8 The function of the gate in lifestyle communities is 9 The issue with gated Chinese developments is not the gating, but 10 Constructing niceness in Chinese suburbia is achieved through 11 The term 'bourgeois utopia' refers to 12 Branding is used as a status symbol and to to define the boundary of services. privatize public space. established communities. exploit the common social mentality. ideal images of the good life. communitarian trap. to construct niceness, and market competition. Westernization and evolving into a highly decorative form. aesthetization and neoliberal (sub)urbanism. a mixture of foreign and indigenous elements. purified communities. more symbolic.
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