Lecture:'The Growing Global Trend Toward Gated Communities'

Why? Where? and What are its Future Implications for Human Society? Middletown, N.Y. — On Monday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. Richard Hull, PHD will lecture, addressing the subject of gated communities world-wide. He will speak at the Gilman Center for International Education, at the corner of East Conkling Ave. and South St, Middletown, N.Y., in the southwest section of the library on the campus of Orange County Community College The lecture is free and open to the public Gated socially-segregated communities have been re-emerging recently in many parts of both the developing and developed world. What is motivating this growing trend? What does it reflect? What are its future implications? Is this a ‘back-to-the-future’ phenomenon, back to the Middle Ages when communities walled themselves in against the encompassing masses? Is a reflection of growing insecurities in today’s communities as well as a desperate attempt to re-discover, re-invent, re-construct a sense of ‘place’ — of ‘community’ — in a world of confusion, fear, social dysfunctionality and up-rootedness. It is a trend — and phenomenon — that may or may not bode well for civilization. But it is a trend nonetheless that all citizens should be aware of, for it will be on local Planning Board agendas in the years to come and will require informed decisions. A Q&A on this subject will follow the lecture. Richard W. Hull, PhD is a resident of the Town of Warwick, N.Y. He is a research scholar on African History. He is also an historian of local Orange County history. This lecture is part of the Lyceum Series presented by Cultural Affairs to which questions may be directed at: 845-341-4891 and cultural@sunyorange.edu website: www.sunyorange.edu/lyceum