Opposing the motion
Anna Minton is a writer and journalist and the author of ‘Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City’, published by Penguin. She is also the author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Viewpoint on fear and distrust and a member of the writers’ panel for the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. She appears regularly on television and radio and is a contributor to The Guardian.
The idea for ‘Ground Control’ emerged from a series of three agenda setting reports. The first focused on gated communities and ghettoes in the US, questioning to what extent these trends are emerging in the UK. The second, ‘Northern Soul’, looked at polarisation and culture in one British city, Newcastle, and the third, ‘What kind of World Are We Building?’ investigated the growing privatisation of public space.
