@inproceedings{BachmannWanner2021,
  author    = {Bachmann, Boris and Wanner, Matthias},
  title     = {From brownfield development to {"}utopian{"} campus : niche entrepreneurship in strategic action fields of urban development},
  booktitle  = {Governance in an era of change - making sustainability transitions happen : 11th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) conference ; 18-21 August 2020, Vienna},
  publisher = {Transzent, Zentrum f{\"u}r Transformationsforschung und Nachhaltigkeit},
  address   = {Wuppertal},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-78079},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {In current German debates on sustainable urbanisation and urbanism, new urban actors reviving buildings, brownfields or whole neighbourhoods are discussed as potential drivers of urban transformation towards sustainability as well as potential co-producers for conventional actors in urban development and planning. These actor's projects can be understood as spatially confined niches for experimentation with (built) urban space itself. Building upon the concepts of niche entrepreneurship (Pesch et al., 2017) and the framework of strategic action field theory (Fligstein \& McAdam, 2011; 2015), we ask how these actors secure support for their projects and how these projects in turn are altered in this process. Based upon a case study from Wuppertal, Germany, we show that in struggling for support of powerful actors, these actors often have to significantly compromise, and that these compromises can be understood as contextualisation in the project's spatial and institutional environment.},
  language  = {en}
}