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

## 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.

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

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

## List of books

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