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Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage: Contingent Politics in the Neoliberal City

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  • Katharine N Rankin
  • Jim Delaney

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Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) are a domain of urban governance that has been aptly characterized as a form of neoliberal urbanization aimed at improving the business climate of downtowns. This paper engages with a growing body of literature on contingent neoliberal urbanisms to consider BIAs as an assemblage of coevolving projects and actors. It focuses specifically on two ‘community’ BIAs in Toronto's downtown West, where recent actions of differently positioned stakeholders effectively reveal how multiple agendas can inform BIA practices. Our objective is twofold: (a) to draw attention to the practices of smaller, community-based BIAs that predominate in North America; and (b) to explore the analytical and political openings that arise when institutions commonly identified as neoliberal are investigated as an assemblage of related but distinctive and sometimes disjunctive projects.

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  • Katharine N Rankin & Jim Delaney, 2011. "Community BIAs as Practices of Assemblage: Contingent Politics in the Neoliberal City," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 43(6), pages 1363-1380, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:43:y:2011:i:6:p:1363-1380
    DOI: 10.1068/a43301
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    1. Kanishka Goonewardena & Stefan Kipfer, 2005. "Spaces of Difference: Reflections from Toronto on Multiculturalism, Bourgeois Urbanism and the Possibility of Radical Urban Politics," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 670-678, September.
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    1. Heather E. McLean, 2014. "Cracks in the Creative City: The Contradictions of Community Arts Practice," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 2156-2173, November.

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