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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "Anne Power". London School of Economics-CASE. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ "Anne Power". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ a b c Coyles, D. (2022-05-16). "Anne Power". Ulster University. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Curriculum Vitae Anne Power MBE CBE" (PDF). Brookings Institution. 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ "CBEs I-W". BBC. 2000-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ^ Hume, Lucy (2017). Debrett's People of Today: 2017 - People of Today (Hardback). Debrett's Ltd. ISBN 9781999767037.
- ^ a b c d e f "Anne Power". Bristol University Press. Retrieved 2022-06-02.