Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): The internationalization and contextualization of a 'travelling concept'

European Urban and Regional Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-120

  Peyroux, Elisabeth ^a   Pütz, Robert ^b   Glasze, Georg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business Improvement Districts; neoliberalization; policing; policy transfer; security; urban policy mobilities; urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859888067     PISSN: 09697764     EISSN: 14617145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969776411420788     Document Type: Editorial

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