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Governing? Gentrifying? Seceding? Real-Time Answers to Questions About Business Improvement Districts
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Garnett, Nicole Stelle |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Business improvement districts ("BIDs") have become a ubiquitous feature of the urban development toolkit. An important - perhaps the most important - instantiation of the trend in urban governance toward the devolution of local authority to new "sublocal," quasi-governmental institutions, BIDs play an important role in urban re-development efforts, especially efforts to revitalize downtowns and satellite center-city business districts. Drawing upon case studies of Philadelphia’s BIDS, this symposium essay seeks to answer three questions about how BIDs actually work on the ground: First, whether BIDs are actually functioning as local governments rather than quasi-private providers of supplemental services; second, whether BIDs either generate an insider/outsider problem within urban neighborhoods; and, third, whether BIDs exacerbate the pre-existing inequalities between urban neighborhoods. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=law_faculty_scholarship |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://drexel.edu/~/media/Files/law/law%20review/fall_2010/lawreview/Garnett.ashx?la=en |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
