How Long to Read Designing Urban Transformation

How Long Does it Take to Read Designing Urban Transformation?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Designing Urban Transformation by Aseem Inam

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.

How long is Designing Urban Transformation?

Designing Urban Transformation by Aseem Inam is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Designing Urban Transformation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Designing Urban Transformation aloud.

What Reading Level is Designing Urban Transformation?

Designing Urban Transformation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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