Business Improvement Districts in the United States Private Governme
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 govern
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Private Government and Public Consequences
Abraham Unger
Business Improvement Districts in the United States
Abraham Unger
Business Improvement Districts in the United States Private Government and Public Consequences
Abraham Unger Wagner College Staten Island, New York, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-32293-3 ISBN 978-3-319-32294-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32294-0
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I dedicate this book to Myra and Sherwood Unger Parents whose faith in me has been felt every day of my life Rafi and Ari Unger Sons who inspire me every day with their talents and kindness Deborah Lupkin Gross My muse
PREFACE
This book began out of a fascination with trying to understand just how and why cities like my own native New York have radically transformed during my lifetime. The economically precarious and dangerous New York City of my boyhood has become a lifestyle capital. I am not unaware, nor was I when this urban rebirth began, of globalization and its literature. But, on the day-to-day level of riding subways and grabbing a bite to eat, that sweeping, often ideologically infused theoretical discussion seemed to miss processes that were more incremental. It was not only that the world suddenly became more consumerist after the end of the Cold War, nor was it that global cities were solely emerging as puppets on the strings of financial service behemoths. These factors have their place, but life can also be a little less grandiose in the real life of urban governance. Something on the ground was happening too, block by block, neighborhood by
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