# Ken Worpole
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ken worpole (born 1944) is a writer and social historian whose many books include works of literary criticism, architectural history, and landscape aesthetics, and was one of the editors of the 2001 United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) report, The State of the World’s Cities. In 2005 The Independent newspaper stated that: ‘For many years, ken worpole has been one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape.’ In 2014 ICON Review similarly observed that ‘For well over 40 years ken worpole has been one of the most eloquent and forward thinking writers in Britain.’
== Early life ==
Worpole attended Southend High School for Boys before training as an English teacher at Brighton College of Education between 1965 and 1969. On completing his training moved to Hackney, teaching English at Hackney Downs School from 1969 – 1973.
Brightening from the East
In the next in a series celebrating the joys of Essex, surely the most maligned of counties, writer and social historian Ken Worpole explores Essex as a place of retreat and refuge.
Known recently for the pneumonic blondes and diamond geezers of television's The Only Way Is Essex, as well as the …
Why do we keep experimenting with ways of living?
Ken Worpole and Owen Kelly discuss the question: why do we always need 'experiments in living' to see what works and doesn't work in how people live and work together? And why do these experiments never seem to reach a conclusion?
Their conversation begins with a book of Ken Worpole’s called New J…
Cults & Sects
Owen Kelly and Ken Worpole follow their discussion about the ways in which experiments with living arrangements regularly occur and then reoccur. In this month’s episode they look at cults: at how we can define these, why they grow and spread, and what this means for cultural democracy.
Their conv…
Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole & Jon Day: The Allotment
Olivia Laing, Ken Worpole and Jon Day discuss Colin Ward and David Crouch's 1988 classic of social and oral history The Allotment, long out of print but finally reissued by the indefatigable Little Toller Books.
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Ken Worpole: Designing social care
Series 3, Episode 25 of A is for Architecture’s is a conversation with social and architectural historian, Ken Worpole, discussing his life and work, and focusing on the new edition of his book Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative and Social Care, published by Routledge this year. …
Anarchy, New Society, Colin Ward
Owen Kelly talks to Ken Worpole about just some of the adventures of Colin Ward during his adventurous and varied life.
JANUARY 3 | SERIES 2025
STREAM Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | EPISODE 79
PARTICIPANTS
Owen Kelly | Ken Worpole
COMMENTARY
In London, on March 29, 2010, The Daily T…
The New English Landscape with Ken Worpole: Uncanny Landscapes S2E4
An interview with writer Ken Worpole about his influential work on the 'New English Landscape' and his new book Brightening from the East.
Ken's website is at worpole.net and his publisher is Little Toller Books.
Music by Micro Moon from the album Figures in a Landscape.
I (Justin) am doing m…
Ken Worpole & Melissa Benn: Brightening from the East
Ken Worpole, ‘a literary original, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition’ (New Statesman), has written on many subjects during his long career, from cemeteries to hospices to the novels of Alexander Baron, but has o…
Anarchy, New Society, Colin Ward
Owen Kelly talks to Ken Worpole about just some of the adventures of Colin Ward during his adventurous and varied life.
JANUARY 3 | SERIES 2025
STREAM Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | EPISODE 79
PARTICIPANTS
Owen Kelly | Ken Worpole
COMMENTARY
In London, on March 29, 2010, The Daily T…
Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife
Alexander Baron’s cult classic The Lowlife, first published by Black Spring in 1963, has recently been reissued by Faber. Set in Hackney in the aftermath of WW2, Baron’s novel follows the descent of Zola-reading gambler Harryboy Boas into the murky world of East End gangsters, hoodlums and loan sha…
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