Ken Worpole
Ken Worpole is a British writer and social historian whose many books include works of literary criticism, architectural history, and landscape aesthetics, and who 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: "For many years, Ken Worpole has been one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape." In 2014, ICON magazine similarly observed: "For well over 40 years Ken Worpole has been one of the most eloquent and forward thinking writers in Britain."