Showing results for "Cities in Time" in Social Sciences

"Laser Scans Unveil a Network of Ancient Cities in Cambodia" is from the September 19, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Julia Wallace and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"In City Built by Immigrants, Immigration Is the Defining Political Issue" is from the October 12, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Binyamin Appelbaum and narrated by Caroline Miller.

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A vast, boxy customs center acts as a busy island of commerce deep in central China.

Government officers, in sharply pressed uniforms, race around a maze of wooden pallets piled high with boxes — counting, weighing, scanning and approving shipments. Unmarked trucks stretch for more than a mile awaiting the next load headed for Beijing, New York, London and dozens of other destinations.

"More Births With Zika-Related Problem Reported in New York City" is from the December 07, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Marc Santora and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"In Mexico City, Comedians Punish Society's Scofflaws with Humiliation" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Azam Ahmed and Paulina Villegas and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Iraqi Forces Breach Mosul City Limits, Heralding Complex Phase in Campaign" is from the January 11, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Tim Arango and Falih Hassan and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Murder Rates Rose in a Quarter of the Nation's 100 Largest Cities" is from the September 11, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Haeyoun Park and Josh Katz and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"City Wages War on Zika in the Lab and on the Street" is from the August 21, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Marc Santora and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities" is from the September 13, 2016 Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephen Heyman and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Tending to the Living and the Dead in a Battle-Torn Afghan City" is from the December 13, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Attacks in Kabul Keep Wall Builders Busy, Turning City into Labyrinth" is from the May 16, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation’s diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a Black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.

"Eager to Move to the City, but Stranded in the Suburbs" is from the Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Joseph Berger and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

"Teslas in the Trailer Park: A California City Faces Its Housing Squeeze" is from the November 13, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Conor Dougherty and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"'Doomsday Today in Aleppo': Assad and Russian Forces Bombard City" is from the September 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Hubbard and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.