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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Business Improvement Districts"”.
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Business improvement districts : an effective revitalization tool for Massachusetts' forgotten cities?
… owners who are in the process of forming a business improvement district (BID) to enhance their investments in the mill district. However, these stakeholders face a dilemma: they must form a partnership with a city government that lacks capacity and rely on faulty BID enabling legislation in …
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Homelessness in the West: business improvement districts as the strategic weaponization of class monopoly rent
<p>The objective of this study is to examine business improvement districts (BIDs) as a form of class monopoly rent (CMR) within the broader production and spatial management of the ongoing homeless crisis in Seattle Washington. The city of Seattle Washington is home to a plethora of successful and …
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A right to vend : new policy framework for fostering street based entrepreneurs in New York City
… discretion of private interests represented by Business Improvement Districts. There is an estimated ten to twelve thousand street vendors today of which half operate outside any regulatory framework. A historical analysis of street vending policies in New York City reveals a legacy of political …
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Promoting retail to revitalize downtowns : an examination of the business improvement district idea
… pioneering research on the strategies adopted by business improvement districts (BIDs) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The popular belief among practitioners is that where the BID approach has been adopted, downtowns have become vibrant retail destinations. However, there is …
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Not on The Plaza: Critical Strategies for Object-based Public Art in New York
… by commercial galleries, city officials, private business improvement districts and agencies. This thesis uses Patricia Phillips’ notion of “The “Public Art Machine” as a point of departure against which to map the art interventions entitled The “Public Utteraton Machines”, which form the …
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Redefining urban design through public-private partnerships
… measured using pedestrian counts, number of new businesses, retail sales, etc. The good design mechanism is the urban design plans that are used to formulate, execute and regulate the hardware and software of urban environments. The good management mechanism is provided by institutions that could …
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Utilizing economic theories of retail to revitalize inner-city neighborhood business districts : the case of Uphams Corner Main Street
… the task of revitalizing inner-city neighborhood business districts, and 2) to provide an example of how this framework can be used by applying it to the Uphams Corner neighborhood in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Four economic theories of retail provide the backbone of this framework. Economists use …
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How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Processes of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
… research and theoretical development on central business districts despite the fact these areas are critical in the functioning of cities. In fact, studies often exclude them because of the lack of residential population from which to draw statistical inferences. As a result, theories of urban …