A 2019 geospatial dataset from the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) containing the national list and perimeters of priority neighbourhoods for French city policy. It replaces the former Sensitive Urban Zones (ZUS) and Urban Social Cohesion Contract (CUCS) neighbourhoods as of January 1, 2015, following reforms established by the 2014 Planning Law for City and Urban Cohesion. The dataset likely contains polygon boundaries for these designated areas.
Use Cases
- Mapping socioeconomic priority areas based on official government designations.
- Analyzing the evolution of urban policy geography from ZUS/CUCS to the new priority neighbourhoods.
- Assessing the spatial distribution of government interventions for urban revitalization.
Strengths
- Provides official national mapping from French government decrees (2014-1750, 2014-1751).
- Represents a defined policy reform replacing two previous intervention frameworks (ZUS and CUCS).
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-28 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Time Range
- Effective from 2015-01-01
- Freshness
- 2019-03-28
- Geography
- France (metropolitan and overseas territories)