Fellowship, Foundation for Urban & Regional Studies Ken Worpole (born 1944) is a British 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".

[1] 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".

[2] Worpole attended Southend High School for Boys before training as an English teacher at Brighton College of Education between 1965 and 1969.

It is by the hugely influential architectural critic Ken Worpole and looks as wonderful as it reads.’[15] In July 2021, the editor of The New Statesman wrote: ‘Worpole is a literary original, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition.’ [16] Worpole was a founder member of the think-tank, Demos,[17] a member of the UK Government’s Urban Green Spaces Task Force (2001 – 2002), a member of the Expert Panel of the Heritage Lottery Fund (2003 - 2008) and an Adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (2003 – 2008).