Priority Neighborhoods of City Policy in Charente-Maritime

French national mapping of priority neighborhoods for urban policy, replacing Sensitive Urban Zones and Urban Social Cohesion Contract neighborhoods from January 2015. The dataset is published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and was last updated in September 2021. It likely contains geographic boundaries for neighborhoods designated under three intervention levels: Sensitive Urban Areas, Urban Revitalization Zones, and Urban Free Zones.

Use Cases

• Analyze the geographic distribution of priority neighborhoods based on the national mapping.
• Compare intervention levels (ZUS, ZRU, ZFU) for different degrees of urban difficulty.
• Study the evolution of French urban policy geography following the 2014 Planning Law.
• Assess the spatial coverage of city policy initiatives in the Charente-Maritime department.
• Integrate neighborhood boundaries with socio-economic data for targeted policy evaluation.

Strengths

• Based on national decrees (2014-1750 and 2014-1751) establishing an official list.
• Replaces previous geographic frameworks (ZUS and CUCS) with a standardized national mapping.
• Last updated metadata is available (2021-09-17).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• 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

Collection Method

Published national mapping based on decrees n°2014-1750 and n°2014-1751.

Time Range

Effective from 1 January 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2021-09-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Charente-Maritime, France.