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Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking: Bid Urbanism in Washington, D.C.

Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking: Bid Urbanism in Washington, D.C.

Schaller, Susanna F.

Hardcover

Business GeneralGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 082035516X
ISBN13: 9780820355160
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Jul 15 2019
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The livable city, the creative city, and more recently the pop-up city have become pervasive monikers that identify a new type of urbanism that has sprung up globally, produced and managed by the business improvement district and known colloquially by its acronym, BID. With this case study, Susanna F. Schaller draws on more than fifteen years of research to present a direct, focused engagement with both the planning history that has shaped Washington, D.C.'s segregated landscape and the intricacies of everyday life, politics, and planning practice as they relate to BIDs. Schaller offers a critical unpacking of the BID ethos, which draws on the language of economic liberalism (individual choice, civic engagement, localism, and grassroots development), to portray itself as color blind, democratic, and equitable.

Schaller reveals the contradictions embedded in the BID model. For the last thirty years, BID advocates have engaged in effective and persuasive storytelling; as a result, many policy makers and planners perpetuate the BID narrative without examining the institution and the inequities it has wrought as BID urbanism has oiled the urban gentrification machine. Schaller sheds light on these oversights, thus fostering a critical discussion of BIDs and their collective influence on future urban landscapes.

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