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Business Improvement Areas and the Justification of Urban Revitalization: Using the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique to Understand Neoliberal Urban Governance

01 Sep 2019-
About: The article was published on 2019-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received None citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban sociology & Social order.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city.
Abstract: This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through a series of informal and piecemeal arrangements. The article first reviews the evolution, characteristics, and critical aspects of BIDs. It then focuses on the case study of this “informal BID” in Talimhane, analysing its origins, features, and outcomes. The informal nature of this BID is stressed as a key factor in understanding its features and outcomes, and it emerges as a fundamental component of urban neoliberalism in Turkey: it allows a centralized and authoritarian government to maintain complete control over public space and private actors and activities, while promoting a process of devolving powers in favour of the private sector.

8 citations

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16 Apr 2013-BMJ
TL;DR: As a physician who trained in both psychiatry and pain management and chaired the DSM-IV (( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , fourth edition) and DSM- IV-TR (text revision) committees on pain disorder, I am worried about subsuming these diagnoses under the new somatic symptom disorder diagnosis in DSM-5.
Abstract: As a physician who trained in both psychiatry and pain management and chaired the DSM-IV (( Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , fourth edition) and DSM-IV-TR (text revision) committees on pain disorder, I am worried about subsuming these diagnoses under the new somatic symptom disorder diagnosis in DSM-5.1 This new diagnosis, at least with regard …

7 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a market and non-market appraisal of the financial impact of business improvement districts as an area-based regeneration vehicle and conclude that BIDs have significant leverage potential whilst acting as a key conduit for coordinating wider area based regeneration.
Abstract: Urban regeneration has increasingly emphasised long-term policy objectives and public�private partnership arrangements where risk and profits are more equitably distributed between the parties. Similarly, successive governments have endorsed area-based regeneration vehicles with increasing importance placed on enterprise zones, business improvement districts (BIDs), tax incremental finance, and other local asset backed vehicles. Each regeneration vehicle necessitates a clear policy direction and performance measurement of its policy outputs to ensure that funding is targeted at initiatives delivering sustainability impacts. This paper presents a �market� and �nonmarket� appraisal of the financial impact of BIDs as an area-based regeneration vehicle. It utilises data from a UK-wide survey to demonstrate the potential of BIDs in generating direct income and indirect investment and how the output capacity of the BID model increases over time. The paper concludes that BIDs have significant leverage potential whilst acting as a key conduit for coordinating wider area-based regeneration.

7 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the regeneration process of two entertainment zones in Canada, both of which involve business improvement areas (BIAs) within the local governing structure, and analyzed the arrangement of local governance and the corresponding influence on the regeneration strategy in each context.
Abstract: This paper examines the regeneration process of two entertainment zones in Canada, both of which involve business improvement areas (BIAs) within the local governing structure. The main objective is to analyse the arrangement of local governance and the corresponding influence on the regeneration strategy in each context. Resultantly, it is clear that local governance structure holds significant impact on project outcome, which in both cases has led to similar regeneration strategies with regard to place-making and economic revitalization. As a recommendation moving forward, the BIA model might be twinned with a sustainability assessment of the site in order to produce a more strategic approach to urban regeneration.

7 citations