Dobson, S. and Jorgensen, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-5614-567X (2014) Increasing the resilience and adaptive capacity of cities through entrepreneurial urbanism. International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 6 (3/4). pp. 149-162. ISSN 1479-3067
Abstract
This paper sets out to provide an illustrative discussion of emergent and somewhat decentralised urban uplift through a lens of entrepreneurial urbanism. Informal interventions by citizens and entrepreneurs can positively contribute to the urban environment which in turn provides the setting for real estate assets. This whole landscape perspective underlines the increasingly important partnership between citizens, private and public sectors in delivering a resilient yet adaptive urban environment as is evident in the recent shift from ‘managerialism’ to ‘entrepeneurialism’ in urban planning. The examples provided here demonstrate opportunities and beneficial effects of informal and appropriated uplift of spaces which fall outside of formal regeneration and renewal projects. It is asserted that this kind of democratisation of space will be increasingly relevant for urban development as public budgets are reduced and funding opportunities become more limited. Value creation and maintenance of the whole urban environment is increasingly a shared responsibility, requiring businesses to acknowledge greater levels of reciprocity and inter-dependencies. Cities are evolving ‘organic’ entities through which a more holistic and co-dependent appreciation of individual assets is suggested here in order to fully appreciate the environmental context and interplay between business and society.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Inderscience. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Landscape Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2016 11:15 |
Last Modified: | 13 May 2016 11:16 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGSB.2014.067508 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Inderscience |
Identification Number: | 10.1504/IJGSB.2014.067508 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98349 |