urban residential park
Introduction
A closed community —from the English gated community—, also known as closed neighborhood or private, country or country club (in Argentina); closed citadel or private, private colony (in Mexico); private urbanization or residential complex (in Venezuela); condominium, complex, closed complex or residential (in Colombia), among other names depending on the country, is a special form of residential neighborhood, whose planning and roads are private, which also has a perimeter defined by walls or bars and with entrances controlled by a security service, which is responsible for checking the identity of visitors and announcing them.
A gated community generally has small residential streets, with its own traffic rules, where it is only allowed to circulate at low speed to avoid accidents and the typical annoying noises of the city. In addition, larger neighborhoods usually have common use areas or amenities, such as clubhouses, commercial areas, sports fields, swimming pools, playgrounds, golf courses, "Spa (Health)" spas, "Church (building)") churches, schools, marinas and even helipads, among others. Its target varies from typical middle-class and upper-middle class people or families, to those from the upper classes.
Although they are called communities, there is no evidence to indicate that the social capital they contain is greater or better than that of any other form of residential development. Given their enclave-type configuration, isolated from the rest of the city, it is more likely that this type of urbanization will have negative consequences for the total social capital contributions of the entire community.[1].
Its residents must pay a monthly fee as payment for the right to use its common areas, which is commonly known as a "condominium" (as in a residential apartment building).
Size
Size varies greatly. There are apartment buildings guarded by a security service and also large gated communities with more than 100,000 inhabitants that have their own infrastructure (shopping centers, common areas, schools, hospitals and even office buildings).