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Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole

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Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole

A study of libraries and the role they play in both inner city areas and dispersed rural communities. It examines the library as a cultural institution, considering its spatial and symbolic presence and exploring its public service remit. The book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduates on library and information science courses and as supplementary reading for cultural and communications studies, tourism and recreation, human geography and sociology - as well as for public and academic librarians.

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1134223463

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Contemporary Library Architecture

A Planning and Design Guide

By: Ken Worpole

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Contemporary Library Architecture

A Planning and Design Guide

By: Ken Worpole

Focusing on the practical issues which need to be addressed by anyone involved in library design, here Ken Worpole offers his renowned expertise to architects, planners, library professionals, students, local government officers and members interested in creating and sustaining successful library buildings and services. Contemporary Library Architecture: A Planning and Design Guide features: a brief history of library architecture an account of some of the most distinctive new library designs of the 20th & 21st centuries an outline of the process for developing a successful brief and establishing a project management team a delineation of the commissioning process practical advice on how to deal with vital elements such as public accessibility, stock-holding, ICT, back office functions, children’s services, co-location with other services such as learning centres and tourist & information services an sustainability in depth case studies from around the world, including public and academic libraries from the UK, Europe and the US full colour illustrations throughout, showing technical details and photographs. This book is the ultimate guide for anyone approaching library design.

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1136660623

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Here Comes the Sun

Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth-Century European Culture

By: Ken Worpole

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Here Comes the Sun

Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth-Century European Culture

By: Ken Worpole

Here Comes the Sun looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early twentieth century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism, Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in-between – the parks, public squares, open-air museums, promenades, public pools and other public leisure facilities. Life in the open was of particular concern to early urban planners and reformers, with their dreams of release from the confines of overcrowded, unsanitary slums. Picturing youthful working-class bodies made healthy by exercise and tanned by the sun, they imagined an escape route from cities. Worpole demonstrates how open-air public spaces became sought-after commissions for many early modernist architects in the early 1900s, resulting in the transformation of the European cityscape. "...a fascinating account of the political idealism that informed urban planning for the first two-thirds of the twentieth-century...full of insights into how public space influences a sense of belonging and ownership."—The Guardian "This is one of those books you stroke lovingly. Open it, and there is page after page of beautiful photographs...this book combines history, society, politics, environment and place in a well-written and emotive text. The strength of the book is the way it crosses these traditional boundaries and disciplines."—Town and Country Planning "Drawing on architectural theories, philosophy, literature and even film-making, Worpole's book is wide-ranging and erudite and should be of interest to the layperson as well as to the urban planner. It is also elegantly written and complemented by a mixture of black and white and colour photographs to provide a visual emphasis to the points he raises."—N16 Magazine

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Reaktion Books

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1861890737

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9781861890733

Modern Hospice Design

The Architecture of Palliative Care

By: Ken Worpole

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Modern Hospice Design

The Architecture of Palliative Care

By: Ken Worpole

There is a global public debate going on about care for the elderly and the dying, and what is meant by good quality palliative care. This book begins with the rise of the modern hospice movement, begun in 1967. Today there are 8,500 modern hospice projects in 123 countries. The hospice has become an iconic building for this new culture. This is not a book about hospitals as such, but about what lessons the hospice movement has for new ideas about buildings for healthcare across the world. For architects and interior designers, estate and facility managers involved in hospice design, healthcare professionals, hospital administrators and Heathcare Trust Boards.

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1134056737

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Education in Britain

1944 to the Present

By: Ken Jones

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Education in Britain

1944 to the Present

By: Ken Jones

In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme. By 2015, this programme had fragmented: the patterns of schooling and higher education in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England resembled each other less and less. This new edition of the popular Education in Britain traces and explains this process of divergence, as well as the arguments and conflicts that have accompanied it. With a reach that extends from the primary school to the university, and from culture to politics and economics, Ken Jones explores the achievements and limits of post-war reform and the egalitarian aspirations of the 1960s and 1970s. He registers the impact of the Thatcherite revolution of the 1980s, and of the New Labour governments which were its inheritors. Turning to the twenty-first century, Jones tracks the educational consequences of devolution and austerity. The result is a book which is more attentive than any other to the ever-increasing diversity of education in Britain. This comprehensive and accessible overview will have a wide appeal. It will also be an invaluable resource on courses in educational studies, teacher education and sociology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509505237

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Popular Fiction

The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

By: Ken Gelder

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Popular Fiction

The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

By: Ken Gelder

In this important book, Ken Gelder offers a lively, progressive and comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary field. Drawing on a wide range of popular novelists, from Sir Walter Scott and Marie Corelli to Ian Fleming, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, his book describes for the first time how this field works and what its unique features are. In addition, Gelder provides a critical history of three primary genres - romance, crime fiction and science fiction - and looks at the role of bookshops, fanzines and prozines in the distribution and evaluation of popular fiction. Finally, he examines five bestselling popular novelists in detail - John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Jackie Collins and J. R. R. Tolkien - to see how popular fiction is used, discussed and identified in contemporary culture.

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1134250703

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Here Comes the Sun

Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth-Century European Culture

By: Ken Worpole

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Architecture and Public Space in Twentieth-Century European Culture

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Last Landscapes

The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West

By: Ken Worpole

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Last Landscapes

The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West

By: Ken Worpole

Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed "cities of the dead", such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the war cemeteries of northern France, Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th-century Portuguese–Jewish cemetery "Beth Haim" at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, Forest Lawns in California, Derek Jarman’s garden in Kent and the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery. It is a fact that architecture "began with the tomb", yet, as Ken Worpole shows us in Last Landscapes, many historic cemeteries have been demolished or abandoned in recent times (notably the case with Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe), and there has been an increasing loss of inscription and memorialization in the modern urban cemetery. Too often cemeteries today are both poorly designed and physically and culturally marginalized. Worse, cremation denies a full architectural response to the mystery and solemnity of death. The author explores how modes of disposal – burial, cremation, inhumation in mausoleums and wall tombs – vary across Europe and North America, according to religious and other cultural influences. And Last Landscapes raises profound questions as to how, in an age of mass cremation, architects and landscape designers might create meaningful structures and settings in the absence of a body, since for most of history the human body itself has provided the fundamental structural scale. This evocative book also contemplates other forms of memorialization within modern societies, from sculptures to parks, most notably the extraordinary Duisberg Park, set in a former giant steelworks in Germany’s Ruhr Valley.

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1861895399

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Last Landscapes

The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West

By: Ken Worpole

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The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West

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Tracing the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory.

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Modern Hospice Design

The Architecture of Palliative Care

By: Ken Worpole

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The Architecture of Palliative Care

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1134056745

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Dockers and Detectives

By: Ken Worpole

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Dockers and Detectives

By: Ken Worpole

Ken Worpole analyses the appeal of 'hardboiled' US crime novels of the 1930s to an industrial working class that failed to identify with the tamed domesticity of the home counties.

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1905512376

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Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole

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By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole

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Libraries in a World of Cultural Change

By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole,Charles Landry

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Libraries in a World of Cultural Change

By: Liz Greenhalgh,Ken Worpole,Charles Landry

Examination of the British public library network in terms of its history, development, declared aims and success or otherwise in adapting to a world of cultural change.

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Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

Contemporary Library Architecture

Contemporary Library Architecture

Here Comes the Sun

Here Comes the Sun

Modern Hospice Design

Modern Hospice Design

Education in Britain

Education in Britain

Popular Fiction

Popular Fiction

Here Comes the Sun

Here Comes the Sun

Last Landscapes

Last Landscapes

Last Landscapes

Last Landscapes

Modern Hospice Design

Modern Hospice Design

Dockers and Detectives

Dockers and Detectives

Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

Libraries In A World Of Cultural Change

Libraries in a World of Cultural Change

Libraries in a World of Cultural Change

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