Ken Worpole is a writer on architecture, landscape, planning, design, and social history. He was a founder-member of openDemocracy, and is a senior professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University. His many books include Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative Care (Routledge, 2009); Contemporary Library Architecture: a planning and design guide (Routledge, April 2013); and 350 Miles: An Essex Journey, with photographer Jason Orton (2005, still available at £7.95). His website is here
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe law of the forest and the freedom of the streetsThe forest idea is not based on centre-periphery economies and spatial hierarchies, but on equitable networks of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere is England?If countries are geographies understood through the culture of those who inhabit them, then what is England?
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Published in: HomeThe great tide of 31 January 1953An enormous surge of water over the coastal lands of south-east England sixty years ago took hundreds of lives and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Guide to the New Ruins of Great BritainThe ‘new ruins’ – poorly designed and shoddy shopping malls and mass-produced housing – are ubiquitous throughout...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Re-Enchantment of Place: a book about Britain is launched
For the past 20 years or more people have increasingly been exploring the British landscape on foot and by bike. Ken...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKColin Ward, 1924 – 2010A Colin Ward Memorial Gathering is being held this Saturday to honour the life and work of the great anarchist thinker.