Chancen für Quartiere durch die Einbindung von Immobilieneigentümern: Business Improvement Districts und Immobilien- und Standortgemeinschaften

Prey, Gisela; Vollmer, Annette

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92875-3_14

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“…Thus, BIDs are presented to be guardians of the ideal (or vision) of the “European City.” This vision is closely linked to a traditional imagination of dense, organically evolved, historical, and democratic places and opposed to a car-friendly and space-consuming urban sprawl. The traditional inner-city shopping district, it is argued, is increasingly competing against “uniformly managed temples to consumerism” (Prey and Vollmer 2009, p. 239). Inner-city shopping districts, thus, are equated with a historical sense of place, with the public sphere and an idealized history of civic emancipation.…”

Section: Voices Of Decline and Agents Of Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reclaiming the European City and Lobbying for Privilege

Michel

Stein

2014

Urban Affairs Review

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Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are an increasing global phenomenon. In diverse places, they are established and sought of as helpful means to improve urban places. BIDs are frequently seen as a showcase for new forms of globalizing urban policies. This paper contrasts and broadens the frequent examples from the United States and the United Kingdom with experiences from Germany. We argue that this presents not just another example of BIDs as a mode of global neoliberal urban governance in yet another country. Instead, our case study highlights the elasticity and resilience of said concept and the impact of local trajectories on the mobilization of modes of urban governance. Compared with other places, BIDs in Germany remain relatively weak in terms of financial power. Nonetheless, the case of Hamburg shows how they are made suitable for discourses and practices of a neoliberalized “European City.”

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Section: Voices Of Decline and Agents Of Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%