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Neighborhood Power

Jesse Walker | 5.22.2006 2:16 PM


In a brief paper for the DeVoe Moore Center, Robert Nelson argues [pdf] for adapting the Business Improvement District model to residential neighborhoods.

Elsewhere in Reason: I looked at the pros and cons of BIDs in our November 2003 issue. Nelson considered a range of decentralist urban proposals in April of this year.

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.