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Create a 1 page essay paper that discusses How Private Interests Take over Public Space: Zoning, Taxes, and Incorporation of Gated Communities.But Low argues that these techniques are no longer viable

Create a 1 page essay paper that discusses How Private Interests Take over Public Space: Zoning, Taxes, and Incorporation of Gated Communities.

But Low argues that these techniques are no longer viable, and that man groups are seeking legal ways to exclude others to augment the physical ones, such as fighting political battles to skew zoning laws in their favor (with the benefit of their added resources), and incorporating into their own communities to create private public spaces which are only available to a select population, for instance, of a newly incorporated sub development (Low). The most interesting point of this article, however, is that these tactics exist because previous methods of exclusion are no longer viable. The process of trying to create public infrastructure available for all, including public spaces began in the 19th century (Low). But in the past several decades, this trend has been changing. The most common form since WWII, which has been highly successful, has been white flight – the development of suburbs. These did not need elaborate controls to maintain privateness, they were simply economically inaccessible , and physically so far removed that there would be no reason to try to access them. As this strategy stalls against rising transportation costs and increasingly large cities, however, it became necessary to begin carving holes into public spaces then actively excluding people from them, rather than just fleeing to newly created

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