Renaud Le Goix

Renaud Le Goix is a geographer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches geography, urban studies and spatial analysis and has served as Vice President for Research. His doctoral research on gated communities in the United States demonstrated their impact on segregation patterns using GIS-based spatial analysis, and he has extended his work to other forms of private urban governance, such as Business Improvement Districts and airport cities. He has been a Fulbright Fellow (UCLA and CUNY) and a Tocqueville Fellow of the French-American Foundation (USC and UCLA).