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"The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its timely advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care, today more necessary than ever. Rooted in the social history of the care of the elderly and terminally ill, Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative and social care takes cognisance of the new conditions of social care in the 21st century, principally in the UK, Europe and North America. It does so with regard to the development of new building types, but also in response to new philosophies of palliative care and the status of the elderly and the dying. Benefitting from a clearer methodological approach and conceptual framework, the expanded book allows a broad section of readers to navigate the text more easily. At its core is a public discussion of a philosophy of design for providing care for the elderly and the vulnerable, taking the importance of architectural aesthetics, the use of quality materials, the porousness of design to the wider world, and the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces as part of the overall care environment. In doing so it advocates care settings that, in the words of Maggie Jencks whose life and ideas inspired the Maggie's Centres, 'rise to the occasion'. Including new chapters and new in-depth case studies, complete will full colour illustrations, this book is for architects and interior designers and their students, healthcare professionals, social care providers, estate and facility managers, hospital administrators and Healthcare Trust Boards"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Image Credits -- Acknowledgements for Second Edition -- 1 A New World of Palliative and Social Care -- The Century of the Child and the Century of the Elderly -- A Duty of Care -- On Being at Home -- An Architecture that Rises to the Occasion -- Hospices -- Maggie's Centres -- Care Homes & -- Almshouses -- The New Almshouse Movement -- Retirement Villages -- Co-Housing in Europe -- 2 A House at the End of Life -- Life and Death on the Public Ward -- The Right to a Good Death -- The Rise of the Hospice Movement -- Care, Architecture, and the Passing of Time -- The Poetics of Space: Studied Neutrality or a Sense of Occasion? -- Evidence-Based Design -- 3 Be Kind Quickly: How the Modern Hospice Movement Changed (Nearly) Everything -- Beginnings and Endings -- A Darker Side to Architectural History -- A Pattern Book for Shelter and Care -- Hospitals (and Hospices) Learning From Hotels -- Physical, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Care -- 4 The Brief is Everything -- Behind High Walls -- 'The Brief is Everything' -- The Cork Brief -- The Hospice Opens: Squeezing the Very Last Drop From Life -- New Hospice of St Francis, Berkhamsted, UK -- Other Design Guidelines -- Programme for The Good Hospice in Denmark -- Maggie's Architectural Brief -- Lessons for Hospitals -- 5 Public Faces and Private Places -- Fitting Into the Landscape -- Locating Hospices Close to Acute Hospitals -- Location Efficiency -- The Public Face of Hospice Architecture -- Car Parking -- First Impressions -- 6 Everything Gathered in One Room -- From the Cell to the Open Ward -- From the Open Ward to the Private Room -- Rooms: Coming, Going and Inhabiting -- The Flexible Room -- 7 Open to the World and to Life -- Case Study 1: St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne -- The Gardens.

In every area of life, traditional, centralized party politics has been failing and the seeds of a new form of political life are being sown. This is true in housing, health, education, consumption and transport, where public policy is attracting increasing criticism. In an age of social alienation and urban despondency Richer Futures is a timely response to the growing interest in community-based, self-help action. It introduces new forms of communication and decision-making and sets out a programme for a sustainable politics.Contributions from some of the best-known thinkers and writers on contemporary urban, cultural and social policy (and campaigns) in Britain today pay tribute to the ideas and industrious activities of the influential writer and commentator Colin Ward. This uplifting collection of essays looks forward to a new politics of self-management and environmentally aware and sustainable lifestyles.Ken Worpole has written a number of books on urban and cultural policy, and a series of influential reports for Comedia, Demos and the Department of the Environment.Originally published in 1999