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Bibliographic information
| Title | Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities |
| Author | Jerry Mitchell | | Publisher | SUNY Press |
| Publication Date | 1/10/08 |
| Subject | Public Policy, State and Local Politics, Urban & Regional Planning |
| Pages | 162 |
Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life.
Jerry Mitchell provides a comprehensive analysis of business improvement districts (BIDs)-public-private partnerships that shape city places into enticing destinations for people to work, live, and have fun. Responsible for the revitalization of New York's Times Square and Seattle's Pioneer Square, BIDs operate in large cities and small towns throughout the United States. Mitchell examines the reasons for their emergence, the ways they are organized and financed, the types of services they provide, their performance, their advantages and disadvantages, and their future prospects.
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Jerry Mitchell ---
Jerry Mitchell is Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College, the City University of New York, and the author of The American Experiment with Government Corporations.
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"Mitchell does a superb job of placing these important, recently arrived institutional actors on the urban revitalization stage into their historical policy context and nicely presents them in their appropriate place in the broad framework of American political and social thought. The book skillfully bridges questions central to public administration, urban planning, real estate, and political science, and will not only be invaluable to interdisciplinary scholars but also to local officials, including the thousands of people who staff and sit on BID governing boards and need to appreciate the wider framework in which they should view their mission. This is a seminal work." - Dennis C. Muniak, Towson University
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