By Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell offers a accomplished research of commercial development districts (BIDs)—public-private partnerships that form urban areas into attractive locations for individuals to paintings, dwell, and feature enjoyable. chargeable for the revitalization of latest York’s instances sq. and Seattle’s Pioneer sq., BIDs function in huge towns and small cities through the usa. Mitchell examines the explanations for his or her emergence, the methods they're equipped and financed, the categories of providers they supply, their functionality, their merits and drawbacks, and their destiny prospects.
“…provides an invaluable assessment of the association and operation of BIDs … a pretty good, readable introduction.” — financial improvement Quarterly
“…recommended for any reader trying to find a superb impartial creation to BIDs and the starting to be literature and public dialogue approximately them.” — Public management Review
“Reading approximately distinctive taxing districts can be as dry as downtown Phoenix in June, yet Mitchell makes it attention-grabbing. within the first 1/2 the publication, he locations BIDs … squarely in city old context … the 1st part … additionally serves as an invaluable source on American urban making plans theory.” — magazine of the yankee making plans Association
“Mitchell does an outstanding task of putting those very important, lately arrived institutional actors at the city revitalization degree into their ancient coverage context and well offers them of their applicable position within the vast framework of yank political and social proposal. The ebook skillfully bridges questions principal to public management, city making plans, actual property, and political technology, and won't in simple terms be valuable to interdisciplinary students but additionally to neighborhood officers, together with the hundreds of thousands of people that employees and take a seat on BID governing forums and wish to understand the broader framework within which they need to view their venture. this can be a seminal work.” — Dennis C. Muniak, Towson University
Jerry Mitchell is Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch collage, the town collage of latest York, and the writer of the yank test with govt Corporations.
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