Samer Bagaeen Editor

Samer Bagaeen is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton where he leads the town planning programme. His work focuses on international megaprojects, the socio-historical roots of gated communities, sustainable urban form and the brownfield regeneration of former defence sites. He is Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Samer has lived in the Old City of Jerusalem where the traditional concepts of controlled access, community ownership and private space predate the contemporary gated enclave. Samer currently lives in a gated mews in Brighton but remains a keen community activist.

Ola Uduku works at the School of Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art. Her research interests include Investigating social infrastructure provision for minority communities in urban areas, Modern movement Architecture in West, Africa, and the effect of Gated communities on existing and future urban form in Global cities. She has lived in urban Lagos and Johannesburg, both known for their high levels of 'security-gating', and currently lives in a gated Mews development in Edinburgh, near the gates to the city's original walls.