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Urban Governance and Business Improvement Districts: The Washington, DC BIDs
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In this article, the authors examine four active Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in downtown Washington, DC and discuss the political and economic context of both the creation and operation of these four BIDs, and consider the extent that they have become an institutionalized form of metropolitan governance.Abstract:
Metropolitan areas have increasingly relied on the creation of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) as a way to focus on the special needs of retail and commercial centers. Whether part of the central city or a suburb, these relatively recent forms of organizations represent a new way to address sub-municipal issues. As such, they have become an important part of metropolitan governance and administration. The BIDs also clearly fit within the recent set of ideas represented by advocates of “new governance” that emphasizes both public/private partnerships and alternative institutional structures as strategies for addressing problems of metropolitan governance. This article examines four active BIDs in downtown Washington, DC. It presents the political and economic context of both the creation and operation of the four BIDs, relates them to new governance ideas, considers the extent that they have become an institutionalized form of metropolitan governance and finally, speculates on the extent tha...read more
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Business Improvement Districts: Policy Origins, Mobile Policies and Urban Liveability
TL;DR: In this article, the trans-nationalisation of business improvement districts (BIDs) has been discussed in terms of the external edges of the state and its internal architecture, and, on the other hand, in the context of discussions around urban liveability.
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The Business Improvement District Model: A Balanced Review of Contemporary Debates
Lorlene Hoyt,Devika Gopal-Agge +1 more
TL;DR: 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.
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The Spreading of the City Improvement District Model in Johannesburg and Cape Town: Urban Regeneration and the Neoliberal Agenda in South Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the transfer and adaptation of the CID model in two cities of the South, Johannesburg and Cape Town, highlighting the role of the private sector in importing and adapting CIDs in South Africa, and point out the rise of techno-politicians in CID management.
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The Adaptative Nature of Neoliberalism at the Local Scale: Fifteen Years of City Improvement Districts in Cape Town and Johannesburg
TL;DR: In this article, the adoption and adaptation of the North American Business Improvement District (BID) model in South African cities is considered. And the resilience of this resilience is linked to the permeability of the local contexts and to the plasticity of the BID model itself at the city and neighbourhood levels.
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Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): The internationalization and contextualization of a 'travelling concept'
TL;DR: This article explored the internationalization and the contextualization of the North-American Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) model in both Northern countries (the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden) and Southern countries (South Africa).
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