Gary Warnaby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 203700 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gary Warnaby |
| NOMBRES | Gary |
| APELLIDO | Warnaby |
| FIRMA | WARNABY G |
| AFILIACIONES | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6696-6671 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 120 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Continuity and change in urban space
Though they have taken a variety of forms and served numerous functions, urban squares have been integral elements in the urban fabric since antiquity. This paper explores how squares are key spaces in which a host of historic continuities persist but also registers how they are also sites of dynamic change. Our account draws out these contrasting attributes by focusing on the more than 300-year-old St Ann’s Square in central Manchester, UK. We e…
Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship
In this article, we use microhistory to investigate the emergence of social entrepreneurship within historic patterns of urban regeneration. Specifically, we explore the complex temporal processes leading to the formation of Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust (CLT), located in the Granby neighbourhood of Liverpool, UK. Drawing on archival sources, we explore the changing composition of Granby by constructing a microhistorical narrative that…
Omni-temporality and place making
Creative responses to an informal space
Place Marketing and Temporality
Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places. The aim of this activity is to attract visitors, residents and/or inward investment, and focus on communicating attractive place attributes to create a differentiated spatial ‘product’ that will appeal to particular target audiences. In seeking to achieve this, place marketing campaigns have been criticized for emphasizing generic…
Reframing high street viability
Changing consumer trends, waves of retail decentralisation, and various socio-economic and environmental shocks have exacerbated the well-recognised challenges of retail-dominant English high streets in recent years. The decline and ‘death’ of the high street has been the subject of many policy responses aiming at transforming high streets as viable multifunctional hubs and local community anchors. However, this vision implies a narrative change …
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life
This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions.Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spaces manifest practices of togetherness which prefigure the enactment of socioecological degrowth.We draw on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate in Manchester (UK) to identify practices that characterize ev…
Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic
The tourism and hospitality industries have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with widespread closures and later re-opening times than other areas of economic activity. However, little is known about the resilience of these industries in light of the current pandemic, within the context of English towns. This paper surveys businesses dependent on tourism located in English towns, to explore perceptions of resilience in this cri…
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes
The radical changes to the UK town centre retail landscape over the past 60 years are well documented. What are less well documented are accounts of how the internal processes of town centre governance impact on the retail landscape. From the 1990s UK government dictums, aimed at arresting decline, have advised local authorities to engage with local stakeholders and invite otherwise excluded stakeholders into the previously established rituals an…
To us it's still Boundary Park
This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans’ toponymic discourses and associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional toponymic tensions between sovereign authorities and citizens, which can result in competing inscriptions of space. Adopting a quasi-ethnographic approach, we reveal a more complex picture by exploring the variegated toponymic …
Retail occupancy and vacancy in King Street, Manchester
This paper focuses on contemporary retail history, analysing trends in ground floor retail occupancy within King Street, Manchester, UK, from 1967 onwards, through an analysis of Goad shopping centre plan data over this period. The paper also considers the development of recent narratives relating to occupancy and vacancy within this street via documentary analysis of local media coverage. Over the period in question, analysis of occupancy of ind…
A Research Agenda for Place Branding
Place branding is much more than helping cities become more competitive. It is an aspect of the class settlement in which neoliberalism displaced social democracy. By developing an interdisciplinary political approach it may gain the reflexivity needed to fully understand its role in society. Place branding does not sell places by changing their image, but actively engages in the political transformation of cities as well as displaying many of th…
The contribution of posters to the venereal disease campaign in Second World War Britain
In 1942, the British government placed large posters addressing the ‘problem’ of venereal disease (VD) in prominent public spaces, as an attempt to manage this ‘threat’ exacerbated by war. Utilising extensive archival research, this article uses the VD campaign as a lens to examine the way that the state sought to change attitudes and behaviour, and the role of posters in such attempts. With posters reflecting the most publicly acceptable discour…
Mobilising Sense of Place for Degrowth? Lessons From Lancashire's Anti-fracking Activism
The Victorian arcade as contemporary retail form?
This paper analyses ground floor retail occupancy trends in Barton Arcade in Manchester, UK, from its construction in the 1870s to the present. The paper begins by discussing the development of arcades and acknowledges their importance as a retail built form, before discussing their relative demise in the twentieth century. Analysis of occupancy data from Slater’s/Kelly’s Directories (1876–1965) and Goad plans (1967 onwards) reveal significant co…
Territorialising brand experience and consumption
The evolving consumption landscape creates challenges for retailers in accommodating their modus operandi to negotiate changing consumer needs, arguably requiring a ‘new’ type of retailing to hopefully facilitate future success. We suggest that an important aspect of such negotiation will be the use of ‘pop-up’ activity, and we critically evaluate the potential of these ephemeral consumption spaces to constitute and shape consumers’ brand-oriente…
Consumption In and Of Space and Place
Scalar tensions in urban toponymic inscription
This article examines issues of scale in urban toponymic inscription. The specific focus of inquiry is toponymic commodification, whereby corporate brand names of international scope are imposed on English football stadia and their locally embedded fan communities. We employ primary data relating to three football clubs in the Greater Manchester conurbation, all of which have sold their stadium naming rights to corporate entities. Drawing on fans…
Taking a territorological perspective on place branding
Even though city branding has recently been considered an urban policy, it remains a research area theoretically detached from urban planning theory and ethics. On this issue, there is still no theoretical link between the ideological and instrumental aspects, leading to a gap between theory and practice. Hence, this paper aimed to contribute to the academic discussion on city branding by extracting a comprehensive framework concerning both forma…
Flags, society and space
This paper proposes that flags are an important but under‐theorised aspect of geographical inquiry and seeks to outline a new field of “vexillgeography,” which critically embraces the spatiality and performativity of flags. We start by outlining the potential of semiotics (and geosemiotics) to further our understanding of flags, focusing on iconic, indexical and symbolic modes of representation in relation to flag design and the marking of territ…
Marketplace icons
This article considers shopping malls as marketplace icons. We suggest that shopping malls can be regarded as a significant symbol of consumption in an age of late modernity, and highlight key aspects of their development. The role of the shopping mall as an agent of creative destruction, influencing the nature of the retail landscape (especially with regard to the implications of – stereotypically suburban – malls for traditional urban retail pr…
Telling the story of a street
This paper investigates locational change in one street – King Street in Manchester, England – in an attempt to analyse broader retail trends and evaluate their implications. Analysis of Goad plans dating from the mid-1960s reveal King Street to be a microcosm of locational trends in retailing, such as the increasing prevalence of the multiple retailer in urban centres. Also highlighted is the micro-spatial impact of store (re-)location decisions…
Are we any closer to sustainable development? Listening to active stakeholder discourses of tourism development in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
‘Biosphere reserve’ is a United Nations (UN) designation stipulating that a region should attempt to follow the principles of sustainable development (SD). This paper adopts a stakeholder analysis framework to analyse the discourses of those tourism stakeholders who can actively affect SD in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve (WBR), South Africa. Adopting an inductive qualitative methodology generated multiple research themes which were subsequently…
From main street to mall
Understanding stakeholder interactions in urban partnerships
This paper aims to better understand urban partnerships through the nature of the interactions between their stakeholders. Following a review of approaches to stakeholder arrangements in urban partnerships, which draws on a variety of literatures, including strategic management, public administration, urban studies and geography, the paper presents results of an action-case study undertaken in an urban partnership context – namely, Houldsworth Vi…
What's in a Name? Place Branding and Toponymic Commodification
If places are increasingly regarded as brands in both the practice of place marketing and its associated theory, then the study of place names (toponymy) arguably overlaps with theories and concepts involving brand naming within the marketing literature. This paper synthesises the diverse literature streams surrounding critical toponymy and brand naming through an exploration of place branding activities. The paper develops the concept of place n…
Understanding stakeholder interactions in urban partnerships
This paper aims to better understand urban partnerships through the nature of the interactions between their stakeholders. Following a review of approaches to stakeholder arrangements in urban partnerships, which draws on a variety of literatures, including strategic management, public administration, urban studies and geography, the paper presents results of an action-case study undertaken in an urban partnership context – namely, Houldsworth Vi…
Town centre management by co-operation
Mobilising Sense of Place for Degrowth? Lessons From Lancashire's Anti-fracking Activism
Marketing at the public/private sector interface; town centre management schemes in the south of England
Flags, society and space
This paper proposes that flags are an important but under‐theorised aspect of geographical inquiry and seeks to outline a new field of “vexillgeography,” which critically embraces the spatiality and performativity of flags. We start by outlining the potential of semiotics (and geosemiotics) to further our understanding of flags, focusing on iconic, indexical and symbolic modes of representation in relation to flag design and the marking of territ…
Synchronising retail and space
This paper argues that the town/city square, through its role as an urban node, has an important potential role in the creation of competitive place differentiation, especially in terms of the activities occurring therein (with particular reference to retail activities, such as periodic markets), which can, in turn, be considered as contributory elements in existing conceptualisations of an urban place “product”. Drawing on the concepts of rhythm…
Notions of Materiality and Linearity
This paper provides a detailed examination of the marketing of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. The focus of this case is built around two themes which encapsulate the complexities and challenges of marketing such a place entity: (1) the Wall's existence as an historical monument of diminished materiality, and (2) its linearity and spatial diffuseness. These themes emphasise the fact that marketing Hadrian's Wall is different from usual place-…
Scalar tensions in urban toponymic inscription
This article examines issues of scale in urban toponymic inscription. The specific focus of inquiry is toponymic commodification, whereby corporate brand names of international scope are imposed on English football stadia and their locally embedded fan communities. We employ primary data relating to three football clubs in the Greater Manchester conurbation, all of which have sold their stadium naming rights to corporate entities. Drawing on fans…
Marketplace icons
This article considers shopping malls as marketplace icons. We suggest that shopping malls can be regarded as a significant symbol of consumption in an age of late modernity, and highlight key aspects of their development. The role of the shopping mall as an agent of creative destruction, influencing the nature of the retail landscape (especially with regard to the implications of – stereotypically suburban – malls for traditional urban retail pr…
Are we any closer to sustainable development? Listening to active stakeholder discourses of tourism development in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
‘Biosphere reserve’ is a United Nations (UN) designation stipulating that a region should attempt to follow the principles of sustainable development (SD). This paper adopts a stakeholder analysis framework to analyse the discourses of those tourism stakeholders who can actively affect SD in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve (WBR), South Africa. Adopting an inductive qualitative methodology generated multiple research themes which were subsequently…
The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life
This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions.Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spaces manifest practices of togetherness which prefigure the enactment of socioecological degrowth.We draw on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate in Manchester (UK) to identify practices that characterize ev…
Look up! Retailing, historic architecture and city centre distinctiveness
Performance Measurement in UK Town Centre Management Schemes and US Business Improvement Districts
Performance measurement was introduced in the public sector to evaluate the impact of policy intervention. It has been heavily promoted to UK town centre managers in recent years by the government, retailers, and the Association of Town Centre Management (ATCM). Using data from interviews undertaken with UK town centre managers and business improvement district (BID) managers in the USA during 2002-03, the authors compare and contrast performance…
Exploring the concept of town centre paradigms and how they impact on town centre retail landscapes
The radical changes to the UK town centre retail landscape over the past 60 years are well documented. What are less well documented are accounts of how the internal processes of town centre governance impact on the retail landscape. From the 1990s UK government dictums, aimed at arresting decline, have advised local authorities to engage with local stakeholders and invite otherwise excluded stakeholders into the previously established rituals an…
Taking a territorological perspective on place branding
Even though city branding has recently been considered an urban policy, it remains a research area theoretically detached from urban planning theory and ethics. On this issue, there is still no theoretical link between the ideological and instrumental aspects, leading to a gap between theory and practice. Hence, this paper aimed to contribute to the academic discussion on city branding by extracting a comprehensive framework concerning both forma…
Urban regeneration and social entrepreneurship
In this article, we use microhistory to investigate the emergence of social entrepreneurship within historic patterns of urban regeneration. Specifically, we explore the complex temporal processes leading to the formation of Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust (CLT), located in the Granby neighbourhood of Liverpool, UK. Drawing on archival sources, we explore the changing composition of Granby by constructing a microhistorical narrative that…
To us it's still Boundary Park
This paper explores how the corporate (re)naming of football stadia and their urban environs is negotiated through fans’ toponymic discourses and associated commemoration. Critical toponymy research emphasises oppositional toponymic tensions between sovereign authorities and citizens, which can result in competing inscriptions of space. Adopting a quasi-ethnographic approach, we reveal a more complex picture by exploring the variegated toponymic …
Territorialising brand experience and consumption
The evolving consumption landscape creates challenges for retailers in accommodating their modus operandi to negotiate changing consumer needs, arguably requiring a ‘new’ type of retailing to hopefully facilitate future success. We suggest that an important aspect of such negotiation will be the use of ‘pop-up’ activity, and we critically evaluate the potential of these ephemeral consumption spaces to constitute and shape consumers’ brand-oriente…
Commentary
Bridges, place representation and place creation
This paper is an exploration of bridges and their role in the representation of places and the development of place identity and image (in the sense that these latter two terms are understood in the corporate communications literature). The paper argues that bridges – and specifically those that have iconic status – can have a significant role to play in the representation of place in a marketing context, and examples of this are provided in the …
Town centre management by co-operation
Marketing at the public/private sector interface; town centre management schemes in the south of England
Town centre management schemes in the UK
While town centre management (TCM) has proved to be a successful strategy to maintain, improve and regenerate town centres through local partnership, there has been relatively little attention drawn to the marketing of TCM schemes. This paper explores the issues surrounding the use of key performance indicators (KPIs) for the marketing of TCM schemes in the context of wider place marketing activities undertaken by towns and cities. Drawing on evi…
The role of quarters in large city centres
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the development, role and management of quarters in UK cities. Design/methodology/approach A case study based on Manchester's Northern Quarter, using secondary documentary materials and semi‐structured interviews with urban managers and residents of the Quarter. Findings The emergence of the Northern Quarter is a relatively recent phenomenon, with small scale cultural industries and artists moving i…
Performance Measurement in UK Town Centre Management Schemes and US Business Improvement Districts
Performance measurement was introduced in the public sector to evaluate the impact of policy intervention. It has been heavily promoted to UK town centre managers in recent years by the government, retailers, and the Association of Town Centre Management (ATCM). Using data from interviews undertaken with UK town centre managers and business improvement district (BID) managers in the USA during 2002-03, the authors compare and contrast performance…
Bridges, place representation and place creation
This paper is an exploration of bridges and their role in the representation of places and the development of place identity and image (in the sense that these latter two terms are understood in the corporate communications literature). The paper argues that bridges – and specifically those that have iconic status – can have a significant role to play in the representation of place in a marketing context, and examples of this are provided in the …
Look up! Retailing, historic architecture and city centre distinctiveness
Commentary
Notions of Materiality and Linearity
This paper provides a detailed examination of the marketing of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. The focus of this case is built around two themes which encapsulate the complexities and challenges of marketing such a place entity: (1) the Wall's existence as an historical monument of diminished materiality, and (2) its linearity and spatial diffuseness. These themes emphasise the fact that marketing Hadrian's Wall is different from usual place-…
Synchronising retail and space
This paper argues that the town/city square, through its role as an urban node, has an important potential role in the creation of competitive place differentiation, especially in terms of the activities occurring therein (with particular reference to retail activities, such as periodic markets), which can, in turn, be considered as contributory elements in existing conceptualisations of an urban place “product”. Drawing on the concepts of rhythm…
What's in a Name? Place Branding and Toponymic Commodification
If places are increasingly regarded as brands in both the practice of place marketing and its associated theory, then the study of place names (toponymy) arguably overlaps with theories and concepts involving brand naming within the marketing literature. This paper synthesises the diverse literature streams surrounding critical toponymy and brand naming through an exploration of place branding activities. The paper develops the concept of place n…
Rethinking Place Branding
Understanding stakeholder interactions in urban partnerships
This paper aims to better understand urban partnerships through the nature of the interactions between their stakeholders. Following a review of approaches to stakeholder arrangements in urban partnerships, which draws on a variety of literatures, including strategic management, public administration, urban studies and geography, the paper presents results of an action-case study undertaken in an urban partnership context – namely, Houldsworth Vi…
Telling the story of a street
This paper investigates locational change in one street – King Street in Manchester, England – in an attempt to analyse broader retail trends and evaluate their implications. Analysis of Goad plans dating from the mid-1960s reveal King Street to be a microcosm of locational trends in retailing, such as the increasing prevalence of the multiple retailer in urban centres. Also highlighted is the micro-spatial impact of store (re-)location decisions…
Are we any closer to sustainable development? Listening to active stakeholder discourses of tourism development in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
‘Biosphere reserve’ is a United Nations (UN) designation stipulating that a region should attempt to follow the principles of sustainable development (SD). This paper adopts a stakeholder analysis framework to analyse the discourses of those tourism stakeholders who can actively affect SD in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve (WBR), South Africa. Adopting an inductive qualitative methodology generated multiple research themes which were subsequently…
From main street to mall
Consumption In and Of Space and Place
Scalar tensions in urban toponymic inscription
This article examines issues of scale in urban toponymic inscription. The specific focus of inquiry is toponymic commodification, whereby corporate brand names of international scope are imposed on English football stadia and their locally embedded fan communities. We employ primary data relating to three football clubs in the Greater Manchester conurbation, all of which have sold their stadium naming rights to corporate entities. Drawing on fans…
Taking a territorological perspective on place branding
Even though city branding has recently been considered an urban policy, it remains a research area theoretically detached from urban planning theory and ethics. On this issue, there is still no theoretical link between the ideological and instrumental aspects, leading to a gap between theory and practice. Hence, this paper aimed to contribute to the academic discussion on city branding by extracting a comprehensive framework concerning both forma…
Flags, society and space
This paper proposes that flags are an important but under‐theorised aspect of geographical inquiry and seeks to outline a new field of “vexillgeography,” which critically embraces the spatiality and performativity of flags. We start by outlining the potential of semiotics (and geosemiotics) to further our understanding of flags, focusing on iconic, indexical and symbolic modes of representation in relation to flag design and the marking of territ…
Marketplace icons
This article considers shopping malls as marketplace icons. We suggest that shopping malls can be regarded as a significant symbol of consumption in an age of late modernity, and highlight key aspects of their development. The role of the shopping mall as an agent of creative destruction, influencing the nature of the retail landscape (especially with regard to the implications of – stereotypically suburban – malls for traditional urban retail pr…
The Victorian arcade as contemporary retail form?
This paper analyses ground floor retail occupancy trends in Barton Arcade in Manchester, UK, from its construction in the 1870s to the present. The paper begins by discussing the development of arcades and acknowledges their importance as a retail built form, before discussing their relative demise in the twentieth century. Analysis of occupancy data from Slater’s/Kelly’s Directories (1876–1965) and Goad plans (1967 onwards) reveal significant co…
Territorialising brand experience and consumption
The evolving consumption landscape creates challenges for retailers in accommodating their modus operandi to negotiate changing consumer needs, arguably requiring a ‘new’ type of retailing to hopefully facilitate future success. We suggest that an important aspect of such negotiation will be the use of ‘pop-up’ activity, and we critically evaluate the potential of these ephemeral consumption spaces to constitute and shape consumers’ brand-oriente…
Retail occupancy and vacancy in King Street, Manchester
This paper focuses on contemporary retail history, analysing trends in ground floor retail occupancy within King Street, Manchester, UK, from 1967 onwards, through an analysis of Goad shopping centre plan data over this period. The paper also considers the development of recent narratives relating to occupancy and vacancy within this street via documentary analysis of local media coverage. Over the period in question, analysis of occupancy of ind…
A Research Agenda for Place Branding
Place branding is much more than helping cities become more competitive. It is an aspect of the class settlement in which neoliberalism displaced social democracy. By developing an interdisciplinary political approach it may gain the reflexivity needed to fully understand its role in society. Place branding does not sell places by changing their image, but actively engages in the political transformation of cities as well as displaying many of th…
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