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Business Improvement Areas and the Justification of Urban Revitalization: Using the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique to Understand Neoliberal Urban Governance
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Understanding Business Improvement Districts: A New Governance Framework
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Abstract: What is the current state of research on business improvement districts (BIDs)? What is an appropriate framework for analysis? What are key questions for advancing future BID research? BIDs can be understood best within a network governance framework. The research shows, first, a blurring of the line between the public and private spheres as a result of BIDs; second, BIDs are increasingly important actors in urban governance; third, BIDs engage in collaborative, conflictual, and co-optative relations with local and state governments; and fourth, difficult accountability and management problems are created by their interdependent relationships with local governments. Future research needs to focus on understanding the role of BIDs in urban governance and assessing their impacts on metropolitan areas, as well as their inherently complicated public accountability and management challenges.
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Downtowns in transition: Emerging business improvement area strategies
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of business improvement areas (BIAs) in promoting downtown vitality is examined in Canada's major metropolitan downtowns. Butts et al. present a case study of the Downtown Yonge BIA and highlight the significant suburban shift in retail activity across Canada's metropolitan areas and the associated challenges that this has resulted in for the downtown.
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Lessons from America: The role of Business Improvement Districts as an agent of urban regeneration
Martin Symes,Mark Steel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight what can be learned from the American experience of BID in terms of scale, scope, strengths, weaknesses and lessons for the implementation of BIDs in the UK.
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Entrepreneurial Urbanism and Business Improvement Districts in the State of Wisconsin: A Cosmopolitan Critique
TL;DR: The authors argue for a greater appreciation of diversity within this model of downtown governance than hitherto has been acknowledged, broadening the geographical referents for studies of entrepreneurial urbanism and thinking through what this knowledge might reveal about how we theorize urban revalorization.