Abstract
Home, a primary territory allows people to exert control over its space, and in turn the home dictates behaviors
and attitudes of its inhaitbitants. This paper explores extended territory beyond home,which includes other
homes in gated spaces. Gated spaces and its community are bounded by a wall with gates and has restricted
throughfare traffic. These gated spaces provide vivid territorial physical markers which influences thinking of
the community about an ‘extended home’. Two research sites were selected on the basis of size (large and
small) and permeability (active and permeable) of throughfare. Photographs, field inspection, interactive
participant observation, and semi-structured interviews were taken from residents at these two Sites. The results
suggested that residents viewed territorial physical markers as extension of their house and believed that these
provided a physical safety net extending a sense of home.
