1/35 Gated Communities and House Prices: Suburban Change in Southern California, 1980–2008. Renaud Le Goix University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Department of Geography UMR Géographie-cités 8504 13 rue du Four 75006 Paris, France Email: rlegoix@univ-paris1.fr Web: http://gated.parisgeo.cnrs.fr Elena Vesselinov Department of Sociology Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York Flushing, NY 11367 Email: elena.vesselinov@qc.cuny.edu Acknowledgements This paper is part of a research program funded by the U.S. NICHD, titled “Socio-Economic Impact of Gated Communities on American Cities.” Data and methodological research for this paper have been provided for and funded under the ANR (French National Research Agency, http://www.agence-nationale- recherche.fr/Intl ), IP4 2008-2011 Research Program (Public-Private Interactions in the Production of Suburban areas, http://gated.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/ ), which is gratefully acknowledged. Le Goix R., Vesselinov E., 2011, Gated Communities and Housing Prices, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research IJURR (accepted, sept. 2011).