Planned developments and gated communities in the Los Angeles area, a database (2012) - IP4 Geographie-cités

This database has been produced for the purpose of a project comparing suburban spatial structure of planned development in the Los Angeles region. The main goal was to investigate large subdivisions, planned residential developments, gated communities in a post-suburban realm, in a comparative perspective. The database allows to document the impacts of spatial structure (gated communities, enclosure, seclusion within dead-ends streets) on socio-economic homogeneity. Major descriptors of homogeneity have been measured with housing price and socio-economic characterization of residents (segregation patterns). It contains 2418 features, distributed as polygons and points ESRI shapefiles. <br> This project has been funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR), in a collaboration with Institut Paris Region.