Gated developments are a defining feature of the post-apartheid residential landscape. The fortification practices witnessed in gated developments are part of a wider securitisation of the South African urban- and ruralscapes. This research resides in the ambit of the theory of crime and violence as a precursor to the growth in gated developments. Research on gated developments has tended to focus on their proliferation in larger urban settlements, with scant attention being paid to gated developments in smaller settlements and in rural areas. However, non-metropolitan gated developments are a reality, and they display similar security features as those found in metropolitan areas. This paper compares the security levels of gated developments in a suburb of Cape Town with those in small towns in the Western Cape province. Security features are quantified to determine whether differences in securitisation levels exist between the locales. The gated developments in the city display higher levels of security than those in small towns. However, a closer analysis of small-town gated developments reveals high security levels in towns where tourism is the mainstay of the local economy. As the technology of security migrates from military applications to residential applications, a securified small-town future is a real possibility.

门控式开发是后种族隔离时期住宅景观的标志性特征。封闭式开发中见证的防御工事是南非城市和乡村景观更广泛证券化的一部分。这项研究属于犯罪和暴力理论的范围，是封闭式发展的先驱。封闭式开发的研究趋向于集中在较大的城市居住区中的扩散，很少关注较小规模的居住区和农村地区的封闭式开发。但是，非大都市封闭式开发已成为现实，并且显示出与大都市地区类似的安全功能。本文比较了开普敦郊区和西开普省小城镇中封闭式开发的安全级别。对安全功能进行量化，以确定场所之间是否存在证券化级别的差异。与小城镇相比，城市的封闭式开发显示出更高的安全级别。然而，对小城镇封闭发展的进一步分析表明，在旅游业是当地经济支柱的城镇中，安全水平很高。随着安全技术从军事应用转移到住宅应用，安全的小城镇化的未来成为现实。