{{Short description|British social policy writer and academic}} {{for|the Irish judge|Ann Power}} '''Anne Elizabeth Power''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|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.<ref name="LSE1">{{cite web |url=https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/people/person.asp?id=842 |title=Anne Power |date= |website=London School of Economics-CASE |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref> Power is the author of several books and has had writings published in the Guardian.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/anne-power|title=Anne Power |website=The Guardian |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref>
== 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.<ref name="Ulster1">{{cite web |url=https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/activities/anne-power |title=Anne Power |last=Coyles |first=D. |date=2022-05-16 |website=Ulster University |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref><ref name="Brookings1">{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/powera_bio.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae Anne Power MBE CBE |date=2016 |website=Brookings Institution |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref>
In 1991 Power became founding director of the National Communities Resource Centre, which she founded with Brian Abel-Smith and Richard Rogers.<ref name="Ulster1" /><ref name="Brookings1" />
Power was awarded a CBE in June 2000, for services to regeneration and the promotion of resident participation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/birthday_honours_2000/793814.stm |title=CBEs I-W |date=2000-06-16 |website=BBC |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's People of Today: 2017 - People of Today (Hardback)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9tHEAAAQBAJ|page=|last=Hume|first=Lucy|publisher=Debrett's Ltd|date=2017| isbn=9781999767037 }}</ref> Between the years 2000 to 2009 Power was a Commissioner on the Sustainable Development Commission.<ref name="Ulster1" /><ref name="Brookings1" />
==List of books== *''Property Before People: The management of Twentieth-Century Council Housing'' (1987)<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Hovels to High Rise'' (1993)<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Swimming against the tide'' (1995) - co-authored with Rebecca Tunstall<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Dangerous Disorder'' (1997) - co-authored with Rebecca Tunstall<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''The Slow Death of Great Cities? Urban abandonment or urban renaissance'' (1999)- with Katharine Mumford<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Estates on the Edge'' (1999) <ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Cities for a Small Country'' (2000) - written with Richard Rodgers<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''Boom or Abandonment'' (2003) - with Katharine Mumford<ref name="Brookings1" /> *''East Enders: Family and community in East London'' (2003) with Katharine Mumford<ref name="BristolUniPress1">{{cite web |url=https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anne-power |title=Anne Power |website=Bristol University Press |access-date=2022-06-02}}</ref> *''City survivors, Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods'' (2007)<ref name="BristolUniPress1" /> *''Jigsaw cities: Big places, small spaces'' (2007) - co-authored by John Houghton<ref name="BristolUniPress1" /> *''Phoenix cities, The fall and rise of great industrial cities'' (2010) - with Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler<ref name="BristolUniPress1" /> *''Family futures, Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods'' (2011) - with Helen Willmot and Rosemary Davidson<ref name="BristolUniPress1" /> *''Cities for a Small Continent, International Handbook of City Recovery'' (2016)<ref name="BristolUniPress1" />
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