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Gating the elderly appears to be a common and inevitable part of international urban life. In our study we have used the structure-agency relationship to identify and analyse the salient elements of the process of gating. In order to emphasise the dichotomy of the process in which aging people congregate together and, simultaneously, segregate themselves from urban life, we coined the term "age-regation". We provide a comprehensive and logically structured theoretical framework, in which the theoretical bases of the gated retirement village are discussed within two overarching constructs, namely age (identity, lifestyle) and the congregation/segregation enclave (physical, social, psychological, political, economic, mobility, racial).

1. The apartheid city – Anthony Lemon -- 2. Cape Town: living closer, yet, somehow further apart – Gustav Visser & Anele Horn -- 3. Johannesburg three decades after the end of the Group Areas Act: repetitions and disruptions of spatial patterns - Richard Ballard, Christian Hamann, Thembani Mkhize -- 4. Durban: Betraying the struggle for a democratic city? – Brij Maharaj -- 5. Pretoria-Tshwane: Past, Present and Future - Andre Horn -- From East London to Buffalo City Metropole – Cecil Seethal, Etienne Nel & John Bwalya -- 7. Bloemfontein-Mangaung – Lochner Marais -- 8. Pietermaritzburg – Adrian Nel, Marc Epprecht & Rob Haswell -- 9. Polokwane: South Africa's most integrated city? – Ronnie Donaldson -- 10. From Grahamstown to Makhanda: Urban frontiers and challenges in a post-apartheid city – Phillipa Irvine -- 11. Mthatha (Umtata): From tribal buffer, to homeland capital, to regional integration – Manfred Spocter & Ronnie Donaldson -- 12. Mahikeng: one city but worlds apart – Verna Nel & James Drummond -- 13. Kimberley: The diamond city has lost its sparkle – Manfred Spocter -- 14. Alice: change in a small university town - John Ntema.