Selected Press Selected Publications Selected Presentations            Books and Chapters    Morçöl, G., Hoyt, L., Meek, J. and U. Zimmermann (editors). 2008. Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies, New York: CRC Press.    Hoyt, L. 2005. "A Core Commitment to Service-learning: Bridging Planning Theory and Practice." Pp. 17-31 in Mary C. Hardin (ed.), From the Studio to the Streets: Service-Learning in Architecture and Planning Education. Washington, DC: The American Association for Higher Education.    Gopal-Agge, D. and L. Hoyt. 2008. "The Business Improvement District Model in the Canada and the United States: The Retail-Revitalization Nexus." In Morçöl, G., Hoyt, L., Meek, J. and U. Zimmermann (eds.) Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies. New York: CRC Press.    Journal Articles    Hoyt, L. 2004. "Collecting Private Funds for Safer Public Spaces: An Empirical Examination of the Business Improvement District Concept." Environment & Planning B: Planning and Design 31(3) 367-380.    Hoyt, L. 2005. "Do Business Improvement District Organizations Make a Difference? Crime in and around Commercial Areas in Philadelphia." Journal of Planning Education and Research 25(2) 185-199.    Hoyt, L. 2005. "Planning through Compulsory Commercial Clubs: Business Improvement Districts." Economic Affairs 25(4) 24-27.    Hoyt, L., R. Khosla, and C. Canepa. 2005. "The Power of Sticks, Leaves and Pebbles: Building a PPGIS in New Delhi, India." Journal of Urban Technology 12(1) 1-19.    Carrera, F. and L. Hoyt. 2006. "From Plan-demanded Data to Plan-ready Information: A Rationale for Comprehensive Urban Knowledge Infrastructures." Journal of Urban Technology 13(2) 1-21.    Hoyt, L. 2006. "Importing Ideas: The Transnational Transfer of Urban Revitalization Policy." International Journal of Public Administration 29: 221-243.    Hoyt, L. and D.Gopal-Agge. 2007. "The Business Improvement District Model: A Balanced Review of Contemporary Debates." Geography Compass 1(4) 946-958.    Report and Magazine Articles    Hoyt, L. 2004. "The Business Improvement District: An Internationally Diffused Approach for Revitalization." Washington, D.C.: International Downtown Association, 1-65.    Boddie, S., Sherraden, M., Hoyt, L., Thirupathy, P., Shanks, T., and M. Sherraden. 2004. "Designing and Implementing Family-centered, Place-based Individual Development Account Programs." Saint Louis: Washington University, 1-23.    Hoyt, L. 2007. "Beginner's Luck: Casinos Come to the City of Brotherly Love." Planning 73(2) 18-19.    Hoyt, L. and A. Leroux. 2007. "Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coaltions in America's Older Small Cities." New York: PolicyLink, 1-54.