Anna Minton
Reader
Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School Of Architecture, Computing And Engineering
Dr Anna Minton is a 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 sterilisation of cities and 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 financialisation 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
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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