Anna Minton
Reader
Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering
Dr Anna Minton is Reader in Architecture and Programme Leader of the MRes Architecture. She is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the 21st century city (Penguin 2009). She is currently working on her third book, which examines the sterilization of cities, and which will be published by Penguin in 2026. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Financial Times.
OVERVIEW
Dr Minton's work investigates the interface between architecture, democracy and the city. Her research interests include the privatisation of public space, security and surveillance, the financialization of land, property and housing, gentrification and the housing crisis.
Between 2011-2014, she was the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851 Fellow in the Built Environment.
Link to personal website: annaminton.com
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
- Minton, A. Policy Paralysis, Financialisation and the Politics of Facadism: Housing policy post-Grenfell. The Journal of Architecture, Vol 27, Issue 1, 2022.
- Minton, A. From Gentrification to Sterlization: Building on Big Capital. Architecture & Culture, Architecture & Culture, Vol 10, Issue 2, 2022.
- Minton, A. Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world. Urban Geography Special Issue on Public Space, Vol 43, Issue 6, 2022.
- Minton, A & Watt, P. (2016) London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms in City 20 (2) Special Feature.
- Minton, A, Pace, M & Williams H. (2016) The Housing Crisis: A Visual Essay in City 20 (2) Special Feature.
Authored Books
- Minton, A. (2017). Big Capital: Who is London for? London Penguin Books.
- Minton A. (2009-12) Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City. London: Penguin.
Chapters in Books
- The Place of Housing in Modern Life, in (eds Whitworth, A) (2019). Bridging the Gap between Geography and Social Policy: Towards a spatial social policy. Policy Press.
Edited Books
- Duman, Alberto, Hancox, Dan, Miles, Malcolm & Minton, Anna (eds) (2018) Regeneration Songs: Sounds of investment and loss. Repeater Books.
- Minton, A. Big Capital: Who is the City for? Architecture and Culture. Forthcoming 2022.
Edited Journals
- Co-editor of London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms (2016) CITY 20 (2) Special Feature on the housing crisis.
Reviews
- Review of The New Enclosure by Brett Christopher, in The American Association of Geography Review of Books 2020, Review Symposium.
All other publications
- The Housing Crisis: A Visual Essay. Minton, A, Pace, M & Williams, H. 2016. CITY 20 (2).
- London's Housing Crisis and its Activisms. Minton, A & Watt, P. 2016. CITY 20 (2).
- Fortress Britain. Minton, A; Aked, J. 2013. New Economics Foundation discussion paper.
- Scaring the living daylights out of people: the local lobby and the failure of democracy. Minton, A. 2013. Spinwatch.
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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- State of the Legacy: Reviewing a Decade fo Writing on the 'Regeneration' Promises of London 2012 London, United Kingdom: UCL Urban Laboratory
- From Gentrification to Sterlization: Building on Big Capital Architecture and Culture. 10 (3), pp. 387-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2022.2105573
- Coda: reflections on public and private space in a post-Covid world Urban Geography. 43 (6), pp. 910-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2053428
- Policy paralysis, financialisation, and the politics of facadism: housing policy post Grenfell The Journal of Architecture. 27 (1), pp. 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2042969
- Big Capital: Who is London for? London: Penguin Books
- The housing crisis: A visual essay City. 20 (2), pp. 256-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143687