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Anne Power

Anne Elizabeth Power 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. Power is the author of several books and has had writings published in the Guardian.

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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.34

In 1991 Power became founding director of the National Communities Resource Centre, which she founded with Brian Abel-Smith and Richard Rogers.34

Power was awarded a CBE in June 2000, for services to regeneration and the promotion of resident participation.56 Between the years 2000 to 2009 Power was a Commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission.34

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 Tunstall4
  • Dangerous Disorder (1997) - co-authored with Rebecca Tunstall4
  • The Slow Death of Great Cities? Urban abandonment or urban renaissance (1999)- with Katharine Mumford4
  • Estates on the Edge (1999) 4
  • Cities for a Small Country (2000) - written with Richard Rodgers4
  • Boom or Abandonment (2003) - with Katharine Mumford4
  • East Enders: Family and community in East London (2003) with Katharine Mumford7
  • City survivors, Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (2007)7
  • Jigsaw cities: Big places, small spaces (2007) - co-authored by John Houghton7
  • Phoenix cities, The fall and rise of great industrial cities (2010) - with Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler7
  • Family futures, Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods (2011) - with Helen Willmot and Rosemary Davidson7
  • Cities for a Small Continent, International Handbook of City Recovery (2016)7
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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.