Print Email Facebook Twitter Rethinking urban entrepreneurialism Title Rethinking urban entrepreneurialism: Bristol Green Capital–in it for good? Author Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) Larner, Wendy (University of Bristol) Date 2019 Abstract 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. Subject BristolcoproductionEntrepreneurialismgreen capital To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1949cf73-8d49-4352-97d2-499cc886dc4c DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2019.1635085 ISSN 0965-4313 Source European Planning Studies, 28 (2020) (4), 790-808 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 A. Ersoy, Wendy Larner Files PDF Rethinking_urban_entrepre ... r_good.pdf 1.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1949cf73-8d49-4352-97d2-499cc886dc4c/datastream/OBJ/view