How Long to Read Institutions and the City

How Long Does it Take to Read Institutions and the City?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Institutions and the City by Gérald Ledent

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

Description

A groundbreaking study of architecture's role in the establishment, identification, and perpetuation of public institutions that shape both societies and individual lives. Institutions--for example the state, the church, the army, the judiciary, the bank, the university, or marriage--organize social relations. As social structures, they regulate societies according to various practices, rites, and rules of conduct, and guide our actions by delimiting what is possible and thinkable. Institutions' individual scope depends on how a society understands them. They are in perpetual mutation and thus form complex entities. Architecture plays an essential role in the establishment, identification, and perpetuation of this social structure as it formalizes value systems in space and represents ideologies in permanent physical structures. Architecture establishes and reveals the way an institution functions through different strategies. Institutions & the City investigates this role of architecture, taking the Tracé Royal (the royal route) in Brussels as an example of an urban figure. This succession of emblematic streets, running from the Palace of Justice in the heart of the city to the Church of Our Lady and the Royal Domain in Laeken, is home to several of Belgium's national political, legal, religious, financial, and cultural institutions. The book explores the strategies put in place over time by the various institutions to inscribe themselves durably on the country's social order, revealing similar spatial responses and surprisingly common mutation processes. And it highlights the importance of architecture when it comes to inventing new relationships with institutional spaces in order to live together better in a time when social, political, and cultural reference points are being blurred.

How long is Institutions and the City?

Institutions and the City by Gérald Ledent is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Institutions and the City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Institutions and the City aloud.

What Reading Level is Institutions and the City?

Institutions and the City 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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