Horizon 1 1 17 ACLN : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture non répertoriées par l'AERES "Mind the gap" : thinking about in-between spaces in Delhi and Shanghai City, Culture and Society 227-236 INDE DELHI 2016 fdi:010067423 ENG City, Culture and Society 1877-9166 4 10.1016/j.ccs.2015.03.004 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010067423 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2017-01-20/010067423.pdf 7 Horizon (IRD) This paper examines the development of secured residential enclaves in India, especially in Delhi. It expounds the conditions of their emergence and success: although gated communities are a market driven development boosted by economic liberalisation reforms, they are also embedded in indigenous traditions of residential segregation and enclosure as well as colonial practices. The Non-Resident Indians (NRI) have further played a significant role in the production of these new residential spaces. Significant appeal factors are explored: desire for security, retreat from failing government and the polluted city, search for exclusivity, elitism and social homogeneity. Tapping into the Indian diaspora market and the middle-class' aspirations for social status, promoters have projected their residential enclaves as a way of "global living" in a healthy environment, reserved to a privileged cosmopolitan elite. Yet, gated communities in Delhi are not a mere exogenous Western production; rather, they are spaces in-between the global and the local. The findings are based on direct field observations in Delhi and a review of advertisements by real estate developers in various media. The analysis pursues an Indo-Chinese comparative perspective with reference to the research of Marie Sander (this issue) on gated communities in Shanghai. 102 ; 106 ; 108