TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking urban entrepreneurialism
T2 - Bristol Green Capital–in it for good?
AU - Ersoy, Aksel
AU - Larner, Wendy
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Urban entrepreneurialism is generally characterized by a series of spectacular events, organized and orchestrated by powerful actors. Recently, this has given rise to a series of urban policy agendas that have become ubiquitous across the world. This paper draws attention to an emergent form of urban entrepreneurialism that privileges environmentalism, social inclusion and grassroots creativity. Based on the 2015 European Green Capital process taking place in Bristol in the United Kingdom, this paper shows how the European Green Capital Award is being used to engage a large and diverse range of organizations in the name of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership. We argue that rather than reiterating narratives of urban entrepreneurialism as dominated by narrow economic agendas and being socially exclusionary, this form of urban entrepreneurialism encourages us to look at cities as places that can be coproduced in context-sensitive ways by multiple entities. The paper is informed by primary data gathered through fieldwork conducted over 2014 and 2015, including primary documents, key informant interviews and participant observation.
AB - Urban entrepreneurialism is generally characterized by a series of spectacular events, organized and orchestrated by powerful actors. Recently, this has given rise to a series of urban policy agendas that have become ubiquitous across the world. This paper draws attention to an emergent form of urban entrepreneurialism that privileges environmentalism, social inclusion and grassroots creativity. Based on the 2015 European Green Capital process taking place in Bristol in the United Kingdom, this paper shows how the European Green Capital Award is being used to engage a large and diverse range of organizations in the name of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership. We argue that rather than reiterating narratives of urban entrepreneurialism as dominated by narrow economic agendas and being socially exclusionary, this form of urban entrepreneurialism encourages us to look at cities as places that can be coproduced in context-sensitive ways by multiple entities. The paper is informed by primary data gathered through fieldwork conducted over 2014 and 2015, including primary documents, key informant interviews and participant observation.
KW - Bristol
KW - coproduction
KW - Entrepreneurialism
KW - green capital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068346065&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09654313.2019.1635085
DO - 10.1080/09654313.2019.1635085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068346065
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 28 (2020)
SP - 790
EP - 808
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 4
ER -