UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones 12-2000 Gated communities as public entities Dennis W. Stransky University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations Part of the Place and Environment Commons, and the Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons Repository Citation Stransky, Dennis W., "Gated communities as public entities" (2000). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 419. http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/1645170 This Capstone is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Capstone in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/or on the work itself. This Capstone has been accepted for inclusion in UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones by an authorized administrator of Digital Scholarship@UNLV. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. GATED COMMUNITIES AS PUBLIC ENTITIES By Dennis W. Stransky Bachelor of Science University of Wyoming 1988 A Professional Paper Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master Of Public Administration Degree Greenspun College of Urban Affairs Department of Public Administration Graduate College University of Nevada, Las Vegas December 2000 i Approval Page ii Introduction "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein In 1921, Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” This discovery introduced the duality of the physical property of light.