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BIA Literature

• Hoyt, Lorlene. “Business Improvement Districts, an Internationally Diffused Approach to Revitalization.” [pdf]
  
  
• Hoyt, Lorlene. “Collecting Private Funds for Safer Public Spaces: An Empirical Examination of the Business Improvement District Concept.” [pdf]
  
  
• Hoyt, Lorlene. “The Business Improvement District Model: A Balanced Review of Contemporary Debates.” [pdf]
  
  
• Hoyt, Lorlene. “Importing Ideas: The Transnational Transfer of Urban Revitalization Policy.” [pdf]
  
  
• Hoyt, Lorlene. “Planning Through Compulsory Commercial Clubs: Business Improvement Districts.” [pdf]
  
  
• Hoyt, Lorlene. “Do Business Improvement District OrganizationsMake a Difference?” [pdf]
  
  
• Personal Statement by Lorlene Hoyt. Associate Professor of Urban Planning, MIT [doc]
  
  
• Blackman, Jason. “Business Improvement Districts: Typologies and Best-Practices” [pdf]
  
  
• IDA Publications List and Order Form
  
  
• Milder, N. David. “Downtown Business Recruitment”
  
  
• Urban Revitalization Information Resource
  
  
• Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail [pdf] - Urban Land Institute
  
  
• Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business A Study of Bloor Street in Toronto’s Annex Neighbourhood [pdf]
  
  
• Isakov, Andre. “Business Improvement Areas in British Columbia” [pdf]
  
  
• Summer Spaces 2009: Retail - Commercial Impact Study [pdf]

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