Beyond Big Capital - Anna Minton
- đ¤ Speaker: Anna Minton, UEL
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
- đ Venue: Lecture Room 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge
Abstract
Anna Minton is an acclaimed writer, journalist and academic. She is the author of Big Capital: Who is London for? and Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st Century City, both published by Penguin. Big Capital investigates the underlying causes of the housing crisis and Ground Control focuses on the privatization of public space, high security and fear and trust in cities. She is currently working on her third book, Superprime: How Sterilisation Broke the City. The talk will focus on the financialisation and sterilisation of cities and the impact this having on democracy.Â
Series This talk is part of the ARCSOC Conversations series.
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Anna Minton, UEL
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 17:00-18:00