VeggieTales presents a view of gated communities where the "insiders" freely and willingly segregate (ahh ha! - nice double meaning word) themselves from the "outsiders". The "insiders" have it good and want to secure the borders of that goodness to preserve that goodness.
In other places, gated communities arise from force and coercion. China's big cities are an example. Other examples might include refugee camps or concentration camps like Treblinca. Here, the population is forcibly kept in an area to keep them away from the wider population.
There are different kinds of gates and walls to these communities. Obvious ones are prisons with strong bars. Communities at Siberia (prison again), Elba (think Napoleon), Cuba, or even Qumran used the desert or water as virtual walls.
At my house, we have a chain link fence with a gate supplemented by 4 big walls and 3 lockable doors. There are even a few doors on the inside that have locks on them. They are nice to have when I want to keep others out - miserable when I'm trapped inside.
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