EAN: 9783319322933

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN THE UNITED ST...

This book examines how privatization has transformed cities  particularly through the role of
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the revitalization of America's downtown. These
public-private partnerships between property owners and municipal government have developed
retail strips across the United States into lifestyle and commercial hubs. BIDs are non-profit
community organizations with the public power to tax and spend on services in their districts 
but they are unelected bodies often operating in the shadows of local government. They work as
agents of economic development  but are they democratic? What can we learn from BIDs about the
accountability of public-private partnerships  and how they impact our lives as citizens? Unger
explores these questions of local democracy and urban political economy in this age of rampant
privatization and the reinvention of neighborhoods.

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