ABSTRACT
The globalization of urban security and insecurity has produced its own unique, hybrid urban spaces. In the post-oil embargo world of globalization, the Garden City ideal morphed into a generic, First World 'radical urban form' of fortified space, while other neighbourhoods became Fourth World 'ghettos of exclusion'. To interrogate the process of 'obverse colonization' in the cities of the First World, people need to get on its freeways and travel from the downtown center to the edge of the periphery. There, people will find another global prototype of the gated community: the research park. Casting the 1970s within a much longer historical context of Latin American colonization puts Read in Immanuel Wallerstein's camp of continuity in the development of globalization. Read disagrees with Manuel Castell's observation that the restructuring of capitalism after 1973 gave birth to a process of 'simultaneous economic development and underdevelopment, social inclusion and social exclusion'.
