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urban entrepreneurialism  

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  • Geographer David Harvey coined the term urban entrepreneurialism during the late 1980s. He sought to characterize what he saw as a definite shift in urban governance from processes concerned mostly with the provision of services to those concerned with economic development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Urban Entrepreneurialism]

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