Anna Minton is a British writer, journalist, and academic. Born 19 April 1970, educated at

Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, ...

, Minton has worked as a

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, business reporter and social affairs writer and has won a number of national journalism awards. She is the author of ''Big Capital: Who is London For?'' (Penguin, 2017) and ''Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City'' (Penguin, 2009).

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After a decade in journalism, including a period spent as a staff member of the ''

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'', Minton began to focus on larger projects for various think tanks and policy organisations, which culminated in her writing her first book, ''Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City'' (Penguin, 2009) is a book which looks at the ownership of various UK cities to investigate the effect and nature of public space. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Minton's interest in public space took root when she wrote a series of reports on the polarisation and privatisation of cities. The first, ‘Building Balanced Communities’, was originally published by the

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a global professional body for surveyors, founded in London in 1868. It works at a cross-governmental level, and aims to promote and enforce the highest international standards in the valu ...

in 2002 and focused on gated communities and ghettos in the United States, questioning to what extent these trends were also being transported to the United Kingdom. The second, ‘Northern Soul' (Demos and the RICS, 2003) looked at polarisation and culture in the British city of

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, while Minton's third and final report, ‘What Kind of World Are We Building?’ (RICS, 2006) investigated the growing privatisation of public space in the United Kingdom. She is a Reader in Architecture at the

University of East London , mottoeng = Knowledge and the fulfilment of vows , established = 1898 – West Ham Technical Institute1952 – West Ham College of Technology1970 – North East London Polytechnic1989 – Polytechnic of East London ...

where she is Programme Leader of UEL's new post graduate MRes course, Reading the Neoliberal City. In 2016 she co-edited, with Paul Watt, a special edition of the journal CITY, focusing on the housing crisis, which informed research for Big Capital. She is a regular contributor to

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, writing often on housing, cities, democracy and public space. She is a regular conference speaker and frequent broadcaster. She lives in South London with her partner Martin Pickles, who is an animator, and their two sons.

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* * *''Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London''. (Editor, with Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox and Malcolm James).

Repeater Books Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, formerly the founders of radical publishers Zero Books, along with Etan Ilfeld, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini. Formation ...

. 2018. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minton, Anna British journalists British writers Place of birth missing (living people) Urban theorists Living people Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford 1970 births People educated at St Paul's Girls' School

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