Improvement Districts Research Articles

Change of Significance and Agriculture and Forestry Integral Local Resource Management in Management of Water Conservation Forest by the Meiji Yosui Land Improvement District

Change of Significance and Agriculture and Forestry Integral Local Resource Management in Management of Water Conservation Forest by the Meiji Yosui Land Improvement District

Agricultural Infrastructure Investments Seen in Mogamigawa Land Improvement District for the 150 Years since the Meiji Restoration

Agricultural Infrastructure Investments Seen in Mogamigawa Land Improvement District for the 150 Years since the Meiji Restoration

Abraham Unger, Business Improvement Districts in the United States: Private Government and Public Consequences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 206 pp. $129 (hardcover), ISBN: 9783319322933.

<i>Abraham Unger</i>, Business Improvement Districts in the United States: Private Government and Public Consequences <i>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 206 pp. $129 (hardcover), ISBN: 9783319322933</i>.

Analyzing the Membership in Land Improvement Districts Suited to the Changes in Farmland Lease

Analyzing the Membership in Land Improvement Districts Suited to the Changes in Farmland Lease

Electric Conductivity Analysis toward Circulated Irrigation Scheme Installation in Shintone River Land Improvement District

Electric Conductivity Analysis toward Circulated Irrigation Scheme Installation in Shintone River Land Improvement District

Changing the city after our heart’s desire: Creative protest in Cape Town

In the city of Cape Town, ubiquitous stencilled texts proclaim “This city works for a few”, “Remember Marikana”, “Dehumanization Zone”, “Not yet Uhuru”, “Gentrinaaiers”; there are also stickers saying “Non-Poor Only”. The image of Mgcineni “Mambush” Noki, an iconic symbol of the Marikana massacre, predominates on walls, road signs and bridges. These texts, labels and symbols interject city texts into commercial and road signage to reveal the “legibility” of the city as operating in the interests of capital while maintaining the segregationist spatial designs of apartheid. This article discusses the artists and art collectives, specifically Xcollectiv and Tokolos Stencils, that were part of the exhibition Plakkers, curated by Justin Davy, as forms of creative protest that widen the space of contention, uncover the normalized violence entrenched in the logic of improvement districts and engage with the continued erasure of people’s histories.

Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space: an informal Business Improvement District in Istanbul, Turkey

ABSTRACTThis article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first case of use of this instrument of neoliberal governance in the Turkish city. The distinctive nature of the Talimhane BID consists in the fact that it has been developed through a series of informal and piecemeal arrangements. The article first reviews the evolution, characteristics, and critical aspects of BIDs. It then focuses on the case study of this “informal BID” in Talimhane, analysing its origins, features, and outcomes. The informal nature of this BID is stressed as a key factor in understanding its features and outcomes, and it emerges as a fundamental component of urban neoliberalism in Turkey: it allows a centralized and authoritarian government to maintain complete control over public space and private actors and activities, while promoting a process of devolving powers in favour of the private sector.

Blurred Lines: Homelessness &amp; the Increasing Privatization of Public Space

Downtown areas are a vital port for social services, human contact, the exercise of free speech, employment, food, and other necessary resources; however, visibly poor people are increasingly shut out as laws and policies increasingly restricts access to these core spaces. Business improvement districts (BIDs) have significant influence on the creation and enforcement of laws that regulate downtown public space. BIDs wield significant political and economic power; they can also effectively deputize citizens to act as a form of private security with broad authority and discretion to enforce these spatial regulations. This brief examines the increasing privatization of public space, the role of BIDs in this process, and the impact on visibly poor people.

Business Improvement Districts: Catalysts for innovation and growth in uncertain times

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are public–private partnerships that were introduced to the United Kingdom in 2005. This paper sets out the author’s perspective from his role as Chief Executive of Camden Town Unlimited (CTU) and of Euston Town (ET), two BIDs representing local businesses in central London.

Confused branding? An exploratory study of place branding practices among place management professionals

Although the knowledge about place branding and place management is growing, there is a substantial gap in the understanding of place branding among professionals responsible for the management of town and city centres, including private-public partnership formats such as business improvement districts (BIDs). This exploratory study addresses this knowledge gap through in-depth interviews with key professionals in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The results suggest that the strategic potential of place branding is negatively affected by a focus on operational thinking, which hinders innovation towards more holistic approaches to place management. Further quantitative research is needed to elaborate on these findings across the UK, Ireland and other countries to enhance the understanding of the uses and interpretations of place branding among town and city managers.

Assessing Economic Impact as a Means for Event Efficacy: A Proposed Model and Case Study

Revenue generation for event planners traditionally comes from sponsorships, ticket and registration sales, merchandising, and additional income streams; however, these sources can at times be limited due to a lack of data and ability to substantiate an event's positioning within an industry or marketplace. A variety of new methodologies exist for such agencies to generate funding, particularly through demonstration of economic impact. To date, many event planning organizations are not familiar with this process or the use of such data. The following provides a conceptual model for understanding and engaging in economic impact analysis to secure traditional and new sources of funding. An overview of Tourism Improvement Districts (TID) is provided and a step-by-step process for utilizing the data is proposed. Finally, the San Diego Bay Wine &amp; Food Festival (SDBWFF) is used as a case study demonstrating the process.

Building Mulholland Highway: The Road to Mulholland Drive

The scenic highway along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains that became Mulholland Drive was the brainchild of a group of large property owners, speculators, developers, financiers, and business leaders. This group, organized as the Hollywood Foothills Improvement Association, donated the land for the right-of-way, directed the survey and engineering studies for the roadway, lobbied city officials, convinced small property-holders to approve a municipal improvement district to fund it, and won public support for the project. The scenic drive fostered its members’ real estate goals and the value of their investments. It also promoted tourism in the region and reduced the mountain barrier that had divided the City of Los Angeles from its San Fernando Valley extension.

The effects of business improvement districts in reducing nuisance crimes: Evidence from Philadelphia

ABSTRACTPrevious studies showed that business improvement districts (BIDs) could contribute to an increase in property values and reduction in minor crimes in their areas. Estimating the effects of BIDs on the variables of property values and crime is methodologically challenging, however, because BIDs are not established randomly but selectively, according to the needs of commercial areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of BIDs on the nuisance crimes of graffiti, illegal dumping, and disorderly conduct in the city of Philadelphia between 1998 and 2009, using the system generalized method-of-moments estimator to address the problem of biased estimation caused by the nonrandom establishments of BIDs. We found that BIDs had negative significant effects on graffiti, illegal dumping, and disorderly conduct in their first 5 years of existence, but in their later years these effects were not significant.

Privatization of Public Spaces and Its Impact on the Socio-Political and Spatial Landscapes of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCCID)

Globalization and its antecedent neoliberalism have brought untold competition amongst global cities. As cities strive to bid for the highest order in terms of maintaining and attracting both local and foreign investments as well as tourists, it is imperative to build socially cohesive, environmentally friendly and economically competitive cities as these attributes have become key essential. However, not every city has the financial means to undertake such obligations so they often resort to the formation of public-private partnerships, a phenomenon often termed as Business Improvement Districts, for the attainment of such goals. More often than not the concept of Business Improvement Districts has been criticized for weakening the publicness of public spaces as they restrict social interaction, constrain individual liberties and exclude undesirable populations through the use of spatially controlled measures such as surveillance policing, law techniques and design measures that 'code' spaces as private. On the contrary, the concept has been commended for regenerating or rejuvenating public spaces, which have mostly fallen victim to crime and grime, hence improving the publicness of contemporary public spaces. Using a qualitative research methodology, the study empirically sought to identify the factors which contribute to a privatization of public spaces. Moreover, the objective of the study was to identify the characteristics of privatized public spaces and their implications on socio-political and spatial landscapes. To accomplish the stated objectives, the study examined 11 public spaces within the City of Cape Town’s City Improvement Districts, through observation methods that were guided by Nemeth’s index scoring sheet, and an interview schedule to solicit information. Also, relevant pieces of literature were reviewed on the topic to accomplish the stated objectives. Findings were that the Cape Town City Improvement District is a public-private partnership which often employs measures such as laws, rules, surveillance, policing, accessibility, territoriality, design and image to encourage or discourage freedom of usage. Recommendations were presented to urban planners, architects, policymakers, and other stakeholders who are interested in management and provision of public spaces.

Modeling Building Energy Demand Profiles and District Heating Networks for Low Carbon Urban Areas

Urban energy consumptions growth has become an urgent topic that requires solutions for significantly reduce carbon emission in the next decades. This paper aims in exploring the integration of building performance improvement and low carbon district heat technological choices by considering the upgrade of conversion technologies, efficiency and the exploitation of local resources.The paper is based on a GIS-based model that spatially characterize the space heating demand of urban buildings. Starting from clustering buildings with similar thermo-physical characteristics, the total energy use of buildings can be depicted and compared with the energy balance data of the city in order to scale the bottom-up results for matching the total load. Reasonable energy efficiency measures are further proposed by considering three different scenarios up to 2050. Long-term building scenarios are applied to a district heating simulation model for investigating how the reduction of building heat demand will impact the district heating production and operations. In particular, the combination of the building model and the district heating model aims at exploring the effects of district network expansion or new low carbon investments from an economic and environmental perspective. The model has been successfully applied to the city of Turin, Italy and the city of Stockholm, Sweden. The flexibility of the approach may allow it to be easily adjusted to different urban areas for providing indications on cost-effective strategies for efficient, low-carbon heat solutions in integrated energy systems. Results highlight that finding synergies between the demand and supply sector will lead to environmental and economic benefits, in particular for district-heated cities.

Reform of Land Improvement District and Agriculture and Rural Development Policy due to Decrease in the Number of Farmers

Reform of Land Improvement District and Agriculture and Rural Development Policy due to Decrease in the Number of Farmers

Assessing a Sustainable Urban Development: Typology of Indicators and Sources of Information

In the field of sustainability assessment of built environment, the focus has started shifting from buildings to neighbourhoods and cities. As a result, numerous assessment systems have emerged to support investors in the design and development of sustainable neighbourhoods. Such approaches, however, can hardly be applied to existing neighbourhoods. The paper explores how “flexible” indicator systems can support the process of sustainable development of existing neighbourhoods. It also deals with issues related to the selection of indicators, identification of data sources and data protection. It is recommended to use such indicators systems to support housing improvement districts (HID) among others.

The Actual Situation and the Future Prospect of the Role of Regional Coordination by the Land Improvement District for Disaster Area Recovery

The Actual Situation and the Future Prospect of the Role of Regional Coordination by the Land Improvement District for Disaster Area Recovery

Qualitative Investigation on the Psychological Processes of Technology Acceptance for Office Workers in a Land Improvement District

Qualitative Investigation on the Psychological Processes of Technology Acceptance for Office Workers in a Land Improvement District

Essay on Land Improvement Districts from Economic View

Essay on Land Improvement Districts from Economic View