Download or read book Protecting Apartments Condominiums and Gated Communities written by Michael Silva and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Apartments, Condominiums, and Gated Communities is a guide for homeowners and property managers who have responsibility for managing security at a multifamily property. This book offers comprehensive advice on assessing the security risks at your property and in the planning and implementation of an effective security program.Chapters within the book explain the basic concepts for good security, the types of physical and electronic security systems that can be used to protect a property, and the strategies that can be used to successfully secure areas both inside and outside of the property.Protecting Apartments, Condominiums, and Gated Communities also discusses the operational aspects of managing a security program including the development of security policies and procedures, providing security training for residents and staff, using security officers, and procuring various types of security products and services.This book provides an unbiased source of advice to people who have responsibility for managing security at a multifamily property. This can range from a private owner who manages a small apartment building, to a regional property manager who has a portfolio of hundreds of properties throughout the country. This book is especially useful to Homeowner's Association (HOA) Board Members who have little or no previous security experience, but must make decisions on how security problems at their property can be solved.

Download or read book Protecting Apartments Condominiums and Gated Communities written by Michael A. Silva, CPP, CSC and published by Silva Consultants. This book was released on with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Apartments, Condominiums, and Gated Communities is a guide for owners and managers of multifamily properties. This book offers comprehensive advice on assessing the security risks at your property and in the planning and implementation of an effective security program. Chapters within the book explain the basic concepts for good security, the types of physical and electronic security systems that can be used to protect a property, and the strategies that can be used to successfully secure areas both inside and outside of the property. Protecting Apartments, Condominiums, and Gated Communities also discusses the operational aspects of managing a security program including the development of security policies and procedures, providing security training for residents and staff, using security officers, and procuring various types of security products and services. This book provides an unbiased source of advice to people who have responsibility for managing security at a multifamily property. This can range from a private owner who manages a small apartment building, to a regional property manager who has a portfolio of hundreds of properties throughout the country. This book is especially useful to Homeowner’s Association (HOA) Board Members who have little or no previous security experience, but must make decisions on how security problems at their property can be solved.

Download or read book Introduction to Policing written by Steven M. Cox and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and extensively updated by an author team that includes former and current law enforcement officers, Introduction to Policing focuses on the thought-provoking, contemporary issues that underscore the challenging and rewarding world of policing. The authors skillfully balance research and practice to offer readers an overview of both the foundations of policing and the expanded role of today’s police officers. Evolving with the modern realities of the field, the Fourth Edition discusses major new and ongoing impactful events, such as the political shift marked by the U.S. presidential election of 2016 and expanded coverage of women and minorities in policing. The accessible and engaging writing style, coupled with unique coverage of the issues of policing in multicultural communities, the impact of technology on policing, and policing strategies and procedures, make this bestselling book a must-have.

Download or read book Private Communities and Urban Governance written by Amnon Lehavi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public forms of organization and governance in urban residential developments. Bringing together top experts from numerous disciplines, including law, economics, geography, political science, sociology, and planning, this book identifies the current trends in constructing the physical, economic, and social infrastructure of residential communities across the world. It challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the division of labor between market-driven private action and public policy in regulating residential developments and the urban space, and offers a new research agenda for dealing with the future of cities in the twenty-first century. It represents a unique ongoing academic dialogue between the members of an exceptional group of scholars, underscoring the essentially of an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of private communities and urban governance. As such, the book will appeal to a broad audience consisting of policy-makers, practitioners, scholars, and students across the world, especially in developing countries and transitional and emerging economies.

Download or read book The Gated Community written by Suk Kyung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of the study is to explore the connections between residents' perception of safety and their crime experience, and the existence of gates and fences in multi-family housing communities in urban areas. For cultivating discussions regarding the connections between gated community territory, safety, and crime experience, this study classifies apartment communities according to the conditions of their gating and fencing: gated communities, perceived gated communities, and non-gated communities. It investigates residents' perceptions of safety and their opinions and managers' opinions on gated territory and safety. The major findings from the surveys are: Residents felt safer in gated communities than in non-gated communities. Residents' perceptions of safety in perceived gated communities were similar to those in gated communities. These results reflected the territoriality issue for improving residents' perceived safety in apartment communities. Residents' perceptions of safety in architectural spaces showed that residents' fear of crime in public and semi-public spaces must first be addressed in order to ease residents' fear of crime in an apartment territory. The reality of crime in apartment communities differed from residents' perceptions of safety. Gated community residents reported a higher crime rate than nongated community residents. In addition to gates and fences that define apartment territory, such elements as patrol services, bright lighting, direct emergency buttons, and visual access to the local police were indicated as the important factors for improving residents' perceived safety. Some architectural factors and demographic factors exhibited statistical correlations with residents' perceptions of safety. Those were types of communities, dwelling floor level, educational attainment, family size, and annual income. For predicting residents' perceptions of safety in their apartment territory, multiple regression models were obtained and residents' neighborhood attachment was also considered in the multiple regression models. The apartment community managers emphasized direct maintenance issues and residents' social contact with neighbors for improving residents' perceived safety. In conclusion, design and managerial suggestions for safer communities were proposed. For creating safer multi-family housing communities, territoriality and related architectural conditions and managerial considerations and residents' participations are emphasized. The concept of community programming for safer multi-family housing communities is suggested.

Download or read book Building Walls and Dissolving Borders written by Max O. Stephenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in this era, when social containers have become porous, proximity has been redefined, circulation has intensified and the state as a way of organizing political life is being questioned. The authors analyze how walls articulate with other social boundaries to address feelings of vulnerability and anxiety and how they embody governmental processes, public and social contestation, fears and notions of identity and alterity. This book’s authors explore walls as the consequence of a changing web of social relationships. Whether walls are physical objects on the landscape or metaphors for difference among specific groups or communities, the writers consider them as heterotopias, powerful sites around which ways of living together are contested and transformed. They also investigate how architectural planning concerning walls may de facto become a means of waging war, as well as how demolishing walls may give way to new ways of imagining security.

Download or read book Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2011 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Behind the Gates written by Setha Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Global City Regions written by Gary Hack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions have been examined for comparative study and the findings will be of interest to all those concerned with urban development in their professional and academic work. The book features numerous maps which underline research findings. Cities covered are: Ankara, Bangkok, Boston, Madrid, Randstad, San Diego, Chile, Sao Paulo, Seattle and the Central Puget, Taipei, Tokyo, West Midlands.

Download or read book Introduction to Sociology written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show students the relevance of sociology to their lives. While providing a rock-solid foundation, Ritzer and Wiedenhoft illuminate traditional sociological concepts and theories, as well as some of the most compelling contemporary social phenomena: globalization, consumer culture, the Internet, and the "McDonaldization" of society.

Download or read book Creating a system to record tenure rights and first registration written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, attention is being paid to recording tenure rights that are not yet recorded, for example, in cases where customary rights have recently been given legal recognition, where new legally-recognized rights have been created based on informal rights, or where new fisheries rights, forest rights and water rights have been created or given legal recognition. In such cases, there is often a need to also create a new recording system with a specific focus, such as for recording forest use rights, fisheries shares or water use rights, or to have the recording done at an appropriate level of government or by a self-governing community.This guide is about extending the recording or registration of tenure rights to people who currently are not served by systems to record their rights. It provides practical advice on ways to introduce a new system to record tenure rights and for the recording of rights for the first time by the state, a process that is sometimes called first registration.

Download or read book The Future of Luxury Brands written by Annamma Joy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of artification and sustainability are now both at the heart of luxury brand marketing strategies; artification as an ongoing process of transformation in the world of art and sustainability as an indispensable response to the issues of our times. The Future of Luxury Brands examines three interrelated luxury-marketing segments—the art world, fashion and fine wines including hospitality services—through the dual lenses of sustainability and artification. From safeguarding human and natural resources to upholding labor rights and protecting the environment, sustainability has taken center stage in consumer consciousness, embodying both moral authority and sound business practices. At the same time, artification—the process by which non-art is reconceived as art—applies the cachet of art to business, affording commercial products the sacred status accorded to works of art. When commercial products enter the realm of aesthetic creation, artification and consumer engagement inevitably increases. This pioneering book examining artification and sustainability as strategic pillars of marketing strategies in the luxury industry will be essential reading for practitioners working in luxury product companies, as also students of luxury brand marketing.

Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Download or read book The Gated Community written by Gloria Solomon and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear, fun and friendship are some of what you encounter in prison. There are women of different ages, backgrounds, races, religions, politics. The biggest problems are Government rules and regulations that run these establishments. Apathy and neglect bottled with ignorance and self promotion....and that's not the inmates! Gloria was 72 when she went to Carswell Federal Prison for Women. She quickly learned that it's not what you see in movies. You spend the next 4 to 5 years, 24/7/365 with these women. You laugh, cry, like and hate them. She decided to write a book about the experiences and hopefully call attention to a need for prison reform as well as to share some fun and not so fun happenings in prison. It is a totally enlightening life that a majority of people don't have a clue about. It is not an experience for the faint of heart, and she doesn't recommend it to anyone! She wanted answers to questions like: Why can't felons vote? Gloria thought it is something that people should know about and understand what we Americans have created or allowed to be created. That probably has a lot to do with all of the things that are wrong with the system and society, and also the things that are right. Gloria was born in Dallas to an upper middle class Jewish American family. Families ate dinner together, schools were segregated, and coke was a drink. She went to the University of Texas. She has a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter in LA, 2 siblings, a stepdaughter and son-in-law and stepson, daughter-in-law and granddaughter in Dallas. She owned an event planning company, was on Good Morning, Texas, was written up in a magazine. That was all before she became Chief Administrative Officer for a company created by a client that led her to a "wire fraud conspiracy" conviction. 4 1/2 years in prison taught Gloria more than she anticipated and led to her determination to help women in prison get a second chance.

Download or read book Infrastructure Environment and Life in the Anthropocene written by Kregg Hetherington and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment. With topics ranging from breakwaters built of oysters, underground rivers made by leaky pipes, and architecture gone weedy to neighborhoods partially submerged by rising tides, the contributors explore situations that destabilize the concepts we once relied on to address environmental challenges. They take up the challenge that the Anthropocene poses both to life on the planet and to our social-scientific understanding of it by showing how past conceptions of environment and progress have become unmoored and what this means for how we imagine the future. Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Andrea Ballestero, Bruce Braun, Ashley Carse, Gastón R. Gordillo, Kregg Hetherington, Casper Bruun Jensen, Joseph Masco, Shaylih Muehlmann, Natasha Myers, Stephanie Wakefield, Austin Zeiderman

Download or read book Texas Homeowners Association Law written by Gregory S. Cagle and published by Langdon st Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Homeowners Association Law is a comprehensive legal reference book written specifically for Directors, Officers and homeowners in Texas Homeowners Associations.

Download or read book Housing and Community Development written by Daniel R. Mandelker and published by Michie. This book was released on 1981 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: