How Long to Read Imaginary Cities

How Long Does it Take to Read Imaginary Cities?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 39 minutes to read Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson

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

Description

How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”

How long is Imaginary Cities?

Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson is 573 pages long, and a total of 144,969 words.

This makes it 193% the length of the average book. It also has 177% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Imaginary Cities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 12 minutes to read Imaginary Cities aloud.

What Reading Level is Imaginary Cities?

Imaginary Cities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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