Nikos Ntounis
Biographic Data
| ID | 2514834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikos Ntounis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikos |
| FAMILY NAME | Ntounis |
| SIGNATURE | NTOUNIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2517-3031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Managing and navigating Manchester's Privately Owned Public Spaces
This paper explores the processes of understanding publicness in the management of Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS), in the context of a rapidly developing city in the UK (Manchester). By adopting a pluralistic approach that applies legal geography in place management literature in the context of POPS, we explore the intricacies of managing these spaces from the perspective of estate managers. Taking an ‘outside-in’ perspective to the complex…
Chronotopic ruptures
This paper addresses the question of how the spatiotemporal processes of urban assemblages can be understood in the context of a controversial urban squat. We mobilise concepts of time and temporality and employ the notion of the chronotope as a methodological frame to rethink the politics of change in urban contexts. Our multi-temporal, chronotopic analysis centres on Avtonomna Tovarna Rog , a squat in Ljubljana (Slovenia) that was forcibly demo…
What amenities drive footfall in UK town centres? A machine learning approach using OpenStreetMap data
In the United Kingdom, town centres face significant economic and social challenges, with amenities playing a crucial role in their vitality. However, no existing study has thoroughly investigated the relationship between amenities and footfall, a key measure of place vitality. This research addresses this gap by examining which amenities drive footfall in UK town centres. The study employs the random forest modelling, to analyse data from OpenSt…
Hauntological atmospheres of the UK high street
Losing and restoring a place's identity
Reflections from the Business School's margins
In this response to Lees's opening article on engaged dialogue, we reflect on doing engaged scholarship in the context of UK high streets. We foreground three facets of this approach: first, collaborating with partners beyond the ivory tower; second, engaging with ‘left-behind’ places; and third, reconsidering the value of academic outputs to move beyond esteemed journals. We offer these insights working as an interdisciplinary collective focused…
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 …
A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog
The paper explores an urban squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, following a chronotopic narrative approach. Urban squats often represent a manifestation of alternative notions of who belongs where, when, and why, questions that matter when issues pertaining to their legal status are raised. We examine the case of Autonomous Rog, a formerly squatted bike factory area in the city centre of Ljubljana that the Supreme Court of Slovenia described as “quasi-…
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…
Footfall signatures and volumes
The changing nature of retail coupled with rapid technological and social developments, are posing great challenges to the attractiveness of traditional retail areas in the UK. In this paper we argue that the definitions and classifications of town centres currently adopted by UK planners and policy makers are outdated, because of their focus on retail occupancy. Instead, we propose a more dynamic definition and classification of centres, based o…
Normalising jurisdictional heterotopias through place branding
This paper explores the political dimensions of place branding as a path to normalisation for areas where a paradoxical relationship with the law exists, places that we coin "jurisdictional heterotopias" borrowing from Foucauldian literature. We posit that place branding plays a fundamental role in facilitating scale jumping in the otherwise vertically aligned legal space, a hierarchy designed to exclude spatial multiplicity from its premise. By …
Normalising jurisdictional heterotopias through place branding
This paper explores the political dimensions of place branding as a path to normalisation for areas where a paradoxical relationship with the law exists, places that we coin "jurisdictional heterotopias" borrowing from Foucauldian literature. We posit that place branding plays a fundamental role in facilitating scale jumping in the otherwise vertically aligned legal space, a hierarchy designed to exclude spatial multiplicity from its premise. By …
A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog
The paper explores an urban squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, following a chronotopic narrative approach. Urban squats often represent a manifestation of alternative notions of who belongs where, when, and why, questions that matter when issues pertaining to their legal status are raised. We examine the case of Autonomous Rog, a formerly squatted bike factory area in the city centre of Ljubljana that the Supreme Court of Slovenia described as “quasi-…
Normalising jurisdictional heterotopias through place branding
This paper explores the political dimensions of place branding as a path to normalisation for areas where a paradoxical relationship with the law exists, places that we coin "jurisdictional heterotopias" borrowing from Foucauldian literature. We posit that place branding plays a fundamental role in facilitating scale jumping in the otherwise vertically aligned legal space, a hierarchy designed to exclude spatial multiplicity from its premise. By …
Footfall signatures and volumes
The changing nature of retail coupled with rapid technological and social developments, are posing great challenges to the attractiveness of traditional retail areas in the UK. In this paper we argue that the definitions and classifications of town centres currently adopted by UK planners and policy makers are outdated, because of their focus on retail occupancy. Instead, we propose a more dynamic definition and classification of centres, based o…
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…
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 …
A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog
The paper explores an urban squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, following a chronotopic narrative approach. Urban squats often represent a manifestation of alternative notions of who belongs where, when, and why, questions that matter when issues pertaining to their legal status are raised. We examine the case of Autonomous Rog, a formerly squatted bike factory area in the city centre of Ljubljana that the Supreme Court of Slovenia described as “quasi-…
Reflections from the Business School's margins
In this response to Lees's opening article on engaged dialogue, we reflect on doing engaged scholarship in the context of UK high streets. We foreground three facets of this approach: first, collaborating with partners beyond the ivory tower; second, engaging with ‘left-behind’ places; and third, reconsidering the value of academic outputs to move beyond esteemed journals. We offer these insights working as an interdisciplinary collective focused…
What amenities drive footfall in UK town centres? A machine learning approach using OpenStreetMap data
In the United Kingdom, town centres face significant economic and social challenges, with amenities playing a crucial role in their vitality. However, no existing study has thoroughly investigated the relationship between amenities and footfall, a key measure of place vitality. This research addresses this gap by examining which amenities drive footfall in UK town centres. The study employs the random forest modelling, to analyse data from OpenSt…
Hauntological atmospheres of the UK high street
Losing and restoring a place's identity
Managing and navigating Manchester's Privately Owned Public Spaces
This paper explores the processes of understanding publicness in the management of Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS), in the context of a rapidly developing city in the UK (Manchester). By adopting a pluralistic approach that applies legal geography in place management literature in the context of POPS, we explore the intricacies of managing these spaces from the perspective of estate managers. Taking an ‘outside-in’ perspective to the complex…
Chronotopic ruptures
This paper addresses the question of how the spatiotemporal processes of urban assemblages can be understood in the context of a controversial urban squat. We mobilise concepts of time and temporality and employ the notion of the chronotope as a methodological frame to rethink the politics of change in urban contexts. Our multi-temporal, chronotopic analysis centres on Avtonomna Tovarna Rog , a squat in Ljubljana (Slovenia) that was forcibly demo…
Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Architectural engineering (2 works)