How Long to Read Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo

How Long Does it Take to Read Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo by Miriam Paeslack

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

Description

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of urban decay. Bringing together a range of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, art and architecture, this volume looks at both the literal city image and urban representation generated by photographs, video, historical and contemporary narratives, and grass-root initiatives. It investigates the notion of agency of media in the city and, in return, what the city’s agency is. This agency matters particularly as it is both transforming - shrinking, fading, being redefined - and being shaped through its visual and spatial mediation. While illustrated by Buffalo in particular, the book examines a broader phenomenon: the identity of those cities that were built and blossomed during the late 19th and early 20th century and are now in different stages of decline and disintegration. However, while such cities are all confronted with complex issues of economic instability, social and racial segregation, urban sprawl and shrinking processes both in the inner city and more and more in their ex-urban belts, they are too often described through dramatically simplifying visual and linguistic tropes. In Buffalo such tropes refer dialectically either to the city’s past glory or its presumed current cultural, political and economical stasis and decline. This book takes such tired, and familiar tropes and questions them.

How long is Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo?

Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo by Miriam Paeslack is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo aloud.

What Reading Level is Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo?

Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo 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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