"When public services and even local government are privatized, when the community of responsibility stops at the gates, the function and the very idea of democracy are threatened. Gates and barricades that separate people from one another also reduce people's potential to understand one another and commit to any common or collective purpose."
"There are now more than 1 million homes behind such walls in the greater Los Angeles area alone," according to Setha Low, a professor at the City University of New York.
Dude, just call them burbclaves and be done with :)
The closed, gated condominium is the anathema of the city, and culpable of many, many social disorders. Ask any conscious architect.