European Green Capital: environmental urbanism, or an addition entrepreneurial toolbox?

Nurse, Alexander ORCID: 0000-0003-0325-4420 and North, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-5147-7296 (2020) European Green Capital: environmental urbanism, or an addition entrepreneurial toolbox? TOWN PLANNING REVIEW, 91 (4). pp. 357-372.

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Abstract

Since 2010, cities across Europe have served as ‘European Green Capital’ (EGC), an initiative celebrating the contribution of environmental action to urban life. Drawing together the experiences of initial EGC winners, for the first time this paper considers what EGC means to city managers as a way of celebrating and driving forward environmental performance, as well as promoting their own cities. Through a discussion of the experiences of the initial host cities, the paper outlines a typology of EGCs. In doing so the paper notes a shift to a harder-edged economic outlook, which increasingly incorporates themes of entrepreneurial economic growth and competitiveness.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	European Green Capital, urban entrepreneurialism, awards, competitiveness, environmental urbanism
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2019 13:55
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:36
DOI:	10.3828/tpr.2020.21
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3050327