Dr Steve Millington

Tel: 0161 247 6201
E-mail: s.millington@mmu.ac.uk
Room: E415B John Dalton Extension

Research specialisms
  • Urban regeneration
  • Place management and development
  • Vernacular creativity
  • Place branding
  • Landscapes of Illumination
  • Christmas Lights
  • Working class cultural practices
Select publications

Binnie, J., Edensor, T., Holloway, J., Millington, S. and Young. C. (In press) Editorial: Mundane mobilities, banal travels’, Social and Cultural Geography.  2007 publication.

Binnie J, Holloway J, Millington S and Young C (eds) (2007) special issue on ‘Mundane Geographies: Alienation, Potentialities and Practice’, Environment and Planning A 39,3.

Binnie J, Holloway J, Millington S, and Young C, (eds.) (2006) Cosmopolitan Urbanism (Routledge: London).

Hooper, P.D., Millington, S. & Shearlock, C. (2000). Environmental Improvement in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Role for the Business Support Network. Greener Management International. 30. 50-60.

Young, C., Gibson, C., Lever, J. & Holloway, J. & Millington, S. (2000). Resources for Project Work on Place Marketing in the North West of England (with). North West Geographer. 3(1). 35-51.

Millington, S. Young, C. & Lever, J. (1997). A bibliography of city marketing. Journal of Local and Regional Studies. 17(2). 16-42.

Millington, S. (1997). Local Governance and Local Economic Development in Manchester. In Liszewski, S. & Young, C. A Comparative Study of Lodz and Manchester. Lodz University Press. 297-307.

Forthcoming publications

Edensor, T. & Millington, S. (Under revision). This is Our City: Branding, football and the myths of locality. Global Networks.  Early 2008 publication.

Current work-in-progress

Edensor, T & Millington, S. Illuminations, class identities and the contested landscapes of Christmas.  Paper submitted to Sociology.

Millington, S. & Young. C. Branding, football and the Re-making place identity.  Book chapter for Stadium Worlds.