Works Cited

The following websites were used for data acquisition: 

http://egis3.lacounty.gov/dataportal/index.php/
http://gis.ats.ucla.edu//Mapshare/Default.cfm
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2012/main
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/

The Following Journals were used for reasearching the topic further: 


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Troy, A., & Grove, J. M. (2008). Property values, parks, and crime: A hedonic analysis in 

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