How Long to Read Inventing Future Cities

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Future Cities?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty

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

Description

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.

How long is Inventing Future Cities?

Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty is 301 pages long, and a total of 75,551 words.

This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Future Cities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 52 minutes to read Inventing Future Cities aloud.

What Reading Level is Inventing Future Cities?

Inventing Future Cities is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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