Business improvement districts (BIDs) have become popular commercial revitalization tools.
To date, the literature has focused on the experiences of large BIDs in the wealthiest parts of …

Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a domain of urban governance that has been aptly
characterized as a form of neoliberal urbanization aimed at improving the business climate …

Institutional designs for third‐party governance have proliferated in the US and Europe, but
there has been little systematic analysis of their democratic performance. A comparative …

Business improvement districts (BIDs) are dominant economic development tools in North
America today, with more than 1500 in place in the United States and Canada alone. BIDs …

This study aims to start from the macroscale of the megacity, explore a top-down operational
technical path from the identification of community regeneration units as the evaluation …

Business improvement district (BID) are increasingly numerous and familiar worldwide. This
chapter reviews some of the literature about BIDs, taking note of various portrayals of the …

This chapter discusses the contrasting experiences of community and Main Street Business
improvement districts (BID) in the low-and high-income neighborhood groups, and the …

Everybody–or at least every policy analyst–knows that the logic of collective action is such
that individuals' self-interested rationality inevitably leads to collective irrationality: Dominant …

Over the past two decades urban policy in both the USA and the UK has sought to engage
business leaders in various forms of public-private partnership (PPP) with city governments …

ABSTRACT A micro-level analysis of framing by business leaders in business improvement
districts (BIDs) in the US and UK challenges some of the motivational and behavioral …