Ken Worpole: Writer on architecture, landscape and urban public policy issues

Ken Worpole, writer and environmentalist

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Ken Worpole: writer and environmentalist

Ken Worpole is one of Britain’s most influential writers on architecture, landscape and public policy issues.

He has an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University, and is a Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University.

He has served on the UK government Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and has been an adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

His principal concerns are with the planning and design of new urban landscapes, the renewal of public institutions – including parks, libraries, cemeteries and green space networks – as well as the pleasures and democracy of life in the open air.

For lecturing purposes you can contact him at worpole@blueyonder.co.uk.

New book

Modern Hospice Design book cover Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative Care

Published by Routledge in May 2009.

This is based on research undertaken over the past four years in the UK, as well as in Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

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Forthcoming talks

From Fever to Consumption:
The Story of Healthcare in Hackney
Dr Toby Butler & Dr Ken Worpole.
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 6pm. FREE.
Hackney Museum, 1 Reading Lane
London E8 1GQ
Jointly organised with The Hackney Society, Ken Worpole’s contribution tells the extraordinary story of the eccentric Dr Jelley (also known as The Threepenny Doctor) who practised in Hackney between the wars.

That Rose Red Empire: Hackney & London's East End
Iain Sinclair, Ken Worpole and Patrick Wright discuss how writers have imagined London's East End.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 18.30 - 20.30
£6.50.
British Library, St Pancras, London

Dockers and Detectives Dockers and Detectives book cover
Ken Worpole.
Thursday, 25 June 2009
1.10pm - 2pm. FREE.
Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay, London E14 4AL
In the 1980s Ken Worpole interviewed a number of well known writers and political activists in London's East End, including Simon Blumenfeld, Alexander Baron, Jack Dash. Here he talks about their contribution to East End mythology and plays extracts from those recordings.

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