Abstract
The recent developments in mixed-use skyscrapers and apartment complexes follow trends toward greater control of entrances and exits, restricting the outsider from entering. The concept of controlling and protecting the public space, based on our closed neighborhood environment in the city today, can be linked to the “gated community”. The findings from the survey result includes that the gated community is housing complex with tangible structures in place to fence in the physical territory, to secure the realm of the community, and to restrict the outsider from entering, which is ubiquitously spread throughout the world today.The study examines some lower level housing complexes in suburb of the United States and of Japan from the perspective of gated community. Although the gated community concept can be seen in both countries, the execution of the concept significantly differs. While the US community has a physical gate that restricts the outsider from entering, the Japanese community in most cases has no such gate
