Anne Power

Anne Elizabeth Power MBE , CBE is an emerita professor of social policy and Head of Housing and Communities at the London School of Economics. She is a founder of the National Communities Resource Centre. ^[1] Power is the author of several books and has had writings published in the Guardian. ^[2]

Career

From 1979 to 1989 Power worked for the Department of the Environment and Welsh Office, helping set up the Priority Estates Projects to rescue run-down estates countrywide. ^{[3] [4]}

In 1991 Power became founding director of the National Communities Resource Centre, which she founded with Brian Abel-Smith and Richard Rogers. ^{[3] [4]}

Power was awarded a CBE in June 2000, for services to regeneration and the promotion of resident participation. ^{[5] [6]} Between the years 2000 to 2009 Power was a Commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission. ^{[3] [4]}

List of books

• Property Before People: The management of Twentieth-Century Council Housing (1987) ^[4]
• Hovels to High Rise (1993) ^[4]
• Swimming against the tide (1995) - co-authored with Rebecca Tunstall ^[4]
• Dangerous Disorder (1997) - co-authored with Rebecca Tunstall ^[4]
• The Slow Death of Great Cities? Urban abandonment or urban renaissance (1999)- with Katharine Mumford ^[4]
• Estates on the Edge (1999) ^[4]
• Cities for a Small Country (2000) - written with Richard Rodgers ^[4]
• Boom or Abandonment (2003) - with Katharine Mumford ^[4]
• East Enders: Family and community in East London (2003) with Katharine Mumford ^[7]
• City survivors, Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (2007) ^[7]
• Jigsaw cities: Big places, small spaces (2007) - co-authored by John Houghton ^[7]
• Phoenix cities, The fall and rise of great industrial cities (2010) - with Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler ^[7]
• Family futures, Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods (2011) - with Helen Willmot and Rosemary Davidson ^[7]
• Cities for a Small Continent, International Handbook of City Recovery (2016) ^[7]

References

1. "Anne Power". London School of Economics-CASE. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
2. "Anne Power". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
3. Coyles, D. (2022-05-16). "Anne Power". Ulster University. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
4. "Curriculum Vitae Anne Power MBE CBE" (PDF). Brookings Institution. 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
5. "CBEs I-W". BBC. 2000-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
6. Hume, Lucy (2017). Debrett's People of Today: 2017 - People of Today (Hardback). Debrett's Ltd. ISBN   9781999767037.
7. "Anne Power". Bristol University Press. Retrieved 2022-06-02.