中文摘要：

作为“破碎城市”的典型表征，西方学者对门禁社区持负面态度，然而门禁社区在不同区域的出现受制于当地的社会文化要素，并可能对当地产生不同的影响。本文试图探讨在中国特殊的社会文化背景下，门禁社区与周边社会经济地位较低邻里的联系和社会关系，并通过分析门禁社区居民的活动范围和围墙内外居民彼此间的态度和社会交往来探讨门禁社区的影响。以广州番禺南浦岛丽江花园为案例地，结合问卷调查、深度访谈和参与式观察等研究方法，研究发现：与南非、阿根廷等国家不同的是，我国门禁社区与周边邻里存在功能性互动，并未给周边邻里造成被隔离和被歧视的心理，地理空间上的临近性反而为不同阶层和不同生活背景的居民之间的相互了解、融合和沟通提供了机会和可能。

英文摘要：

The rise of gated communities has become a global phenomenon with the appearance both in developed countries such as North American and European countries and in A- sia, Latin America, South America, and South Africa. Accordingly, discussion about this type of private communities has been largely inspired by observations in various cities worldwide. Most of the insights towards gated communities are negative, regarding them as urban enclaves and relating this spatial fragmentation to residential segregation and social exclusion. However, due to different social and cultural backgrounds, the implications and consequences of gated communities in different places may not be exhibited in the same way. Local experience seems to be of great significance to the debate on the social effects of gated communities. The emergence of gated communities in China is a relatively nascent urban phenomenon even though enclosed housing compounds have cultural roots in China＇s history. Against the context of urban sprawl, gated communities invade into rural areas of China, co-standing to mix with traditional villages. Through a case study of a neighborhood named Lijiang Garden in the suburban Panyu District in Guangzhou, this paper ex- plores the relationship between residents of gated communities and outsiders, addressing the material connections of gated community in suburban area of China to the outside world, conceptions and attitudes of residents living in both sides towards each other, exploring social contacts between them, in order to examine the impacts of gated communities on local areas. The empirical study revealed that the physical existence of wall does not mean gated community which can be seen as enclave in China since the functional connections and social contacts can be observed between gated community and its poorer neighborhood. Furthermore, the perceptions and attitudes towards each other are not neg- ative, especially the outsiders of gated communities in China have not, psychologically, been segregated by t