Lorlene Hoyt

Biographic Data

ID3452184
NAMELorlene Hoyt
GIVEN NAMESLorlene
FAMILY NAMEHoyt
SIGNATUREHOYT L
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS31
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX1

  • Business Improvement Districts

    Lorlene M Hoyt, Jack W Meek et al.EDITORBOOKBusiness Improvement Districts2008

    Focuses on the role of the business improvement district (BID) as a popular and contemporary tool for urban revitalization. Explores BID origins, theoretical underpinnings, enabling legislation, and organizational issues. Emphasizes BID service provision including advocacy, marketing, sanitation, streetscape improvement, security and transportation, while examining BID performance using such indicators as crime rates, vacancy rates, and retail sa…

  • Business Improvement Districts

    Göktuğ Morçöl, Lorlene Hoyt et al.BOOKBusiness Improvement Districts2008

  • The Business Improvement District Model

    Open AccessLorlene Hoyt, Devika Gopal‐AggeARTICLEGeography Compass2007

    This article presents an overview of the burgeoning literature on business improvement districts (BID) by highlighting its historical underpinnings, identifying the economic and political factors that explain its transnational proliferation, and demonstrating how the model varies within and across nations. It also provides a balanced review of the key debates associated with this relatively new urban revitalization strategy by asking the followin…

  • Importing Ideas

    Lorlene HoytARTICLEInternational Journal of Public…2006

    This article demonstrates that the business improvement district (BID) is a model for urban revitalization that policy entrepreneurs have deliberately transferred, both intra- and inter-nationally. Data collected via personal interviews and organizational surveys reveal the origins of the BID model, why and how it was successfully transferred to eight different countries, and the types of conditions that prevent its adoption. Special attention is…

  • From plan-demanded data to plan-ready information

    Fabio Carrera, Lorlene HoytARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2006

    lack a comprehensive “knowledge infrastructure ” on which to base planning decisions. Instead, what we discovered to be the most prevalent tendency for the various departments of a modern city is a form of “ad hoc-ism ” whereby data are collected for specific purposes and then quickly forgotten or stored in inac-cessible places. Although some systematic data collection takes place—mostly for regulatory or revenue-generating purposes such as for p…

  • Leaves, Pebbles, and Chalk

    Lorlene Hoyt, Renu Khosla et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2005

    GEOGRAPHIC Information Systems (GIS) technology has customarily been regarded as complicated and costly and a technology that is primarily used by experts to carry out complex planning projects.Har

  • Do Business Improvement District Organizations Make a Difference

    Open AccessLorlene Hoyt, Lorlene M HoytARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2005Cited by: 31References: 8

    The business improvement district (BID) is an international, yet controversial, model for urban revitalization. This article contributes to the BID debate by identifying the theories that underpin the model, developing a conceptual framework that examines the linkages between crime theories and BID services, and-through the use of spatial and statistical methods of analysis-measuring the impact of BID organizations on criminal activity in and aro…