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The Business Improvement District Model: A Balanced Review of Contemporary Debates
Lorlene Hoyt,Devika Gopal-Agge +1 more
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In this article, the authors present an overview of the burgeoning literature on business improvement districts (BID) by highlighting its historical underpinnings, identifying the economic and political factors that explain its transnational proliferation, and demonstrating how the model varies within and across nations.Abstract:
This article presents an o verview of the burgeoning literature on business improvement districts (BID) by highlighting its historical underpinnings, identifying the economic and political factors that explain its transnational proliferation, and demonstrating how the model varies within and across nations. It also provides a balanced review of the key debates associated with this relatively new urban revitalization strategy by asking the following questions: Are BIDs democratic? Are BIDs accountable? Do BIDs create wealth-based inequalities in the delivery of public services? Do BIDs create spillover effects? Do BIDs over-regulate public space?read more
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Town centre management models: A European perspective
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Community groups and urban forestry activity: Drivers of uneven canopy cover?
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Engaging financial stakeholders: opportunities for a sustainable built environment
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Placing Power in the Creative City: Governmentalities and Subjectivities in Liberty Village, Toronto
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the role of property developers and the Liberty Village Business Improvement Association in fostering the area's internal economic geography, and dissected how the production of a place identity requires both new subjectivities and the exclusion of alternative actors and understandings of organization within the district.
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‘Policies in Motion’, Urban Management and State Restructuring: The Trans‐Local Expansion of Business Improvement Districts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the ways in which business improvement districts are being introduced into UK cities, and argue that these changes make UK cities and towns increasingly receptive to the business improvement district model of downtown management, and connect the "exporting" and "importing" zones of policy transfer, arguing for an open and permeable conceptualization of these places.
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A Government for Our Time? Business Improvement Districts and Urban Governance
TL;DR: The emergence and rapid spread of business improvement districts (BIDs) is one of the most important recent devehpments in American cities as discussed by the authors, with both supporters and proponents viewing the districts as part of a trend toward the privatization of the public sector.
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Business Improvement Districts and the “New” Revitalization of Downtown
TL;DR: A survey of 264 independently managed business improvement districts operating in 43 states found that BIDs in large and small communities are most involved with marketing downtown districts, providing supplemental sanitation and security services, and advocating public policies that promote downtown interests as discussed by the authors.
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The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control
TL;DR: The limits of congressional control: agent structure as constraint 7. Regulating hybrid organizations: structure and control 8. Conclusion Appendix: background of organizations studied Interview subjects References Index as mentioned in this paper.