Key Dates & Other
The commercial name of a real estate and gated community development in Brazil.
Alphaville
Location of Brazil's Alphaville.
São Paulo
Privacy is increased by ____.
Reduced Traffic
Gated communities can be an inconvenience to ____.
Residents and visitors
What percent of residential communities in the U.S. are gated?
11%
Alphaville’s establishment date.
1970
Alphaville's 3 key attributes.
Safety & Security, Prestige, and Lifestyle
Controlled access, preventing crime, and soliciting is part of which attribute.
Safety
Maintaining private roads, amenities, security gates and fences, and landscaping maintenance leads to what?
High prices, fees, and rental rates
Percent of gated community residents that are ages 65 and older.
22%
Before the urbanization of the area Alphaville is occupying, the land was used for ____.
Farming
List an issue resulting in Alphaville’s development.
Rising crime rates, traffic jams, dense population
Residents living in a gated community often have a sense of eliteness.
Prestige
True/False.
Security monitoring does not affect the privacy of the community.
False
Gated communities are most common in which sections of the U.S.
West and South
It was during this time that São Paulo’s metropolitan area experienced a high rate of homicide incidents.
1992
True/False.
Alphaville was created to satisfy the needs of the wealthiest share of the population.
True
Gated communities builders have an obligation to ensure better than average homes are being built.
Higher home standards
Contact with people in a surrounding area or city tends to decrease as gated communities are generally blocked off.
Social Isolation
Gated communities are least common in which sections?
Midwest and Northeast
List two safety measures that Alphaville promises its residents.
Access Control [doorman], Surveillance System, Communication between residence and management, Patrolling Vehicles
Finish the slogan. “_______ does not have a price, but it has an address. Alphaville.”
Freedom
An improved lifestyle from gated communities are from the included amenities, such as ____.
Golf, swimming pools, tennis, bars, social clubs, saunas, biking and running pathways
The restrictive rules put in place in gated communities inhibits residents to display ____.
Individualism and self-expression
This percent of residencies are occupied by owners and occupied by renters. (two answers)
50.4% and 49.6% respectively