It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read Contested City by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban...
Contested City by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Contested City aloud.
Contested City is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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