An Environmental Study of French Neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhoods are key places for daily activities and many studies in social sciences, health or biology use this spatial concept as an impact factor. Conversely, the neighbourhood environment is rarely defined (e.g., in terms of landscape or main social class). In this paper, we propose six descriptive variables for this environment, and we provide a dataset of 270 annotated neighbourhoods. Next, we detail two methods (prediction and spatial computation) for describing environment of remaining neighbourhoods, and we show in our set of experiments an acceptable quality.