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Seeing Like a State
- Written by: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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A look at high modernist tendencies of state
- By Amazon Customer on 28-11-25
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Seeing Like a State
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- Written by: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.
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the best of nonfiction
- By Koshy Abraham on 08-01-26
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
- Written by: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrated by: Vishal Menon
- Length: 20 hrs
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For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant...
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Poor Old Ideas of leftist leaning.
- By Diptiranjan Panda on 09-04-23
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
- Narrated by: Vishal Menon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release Date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release Date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
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Some Great Idea
- Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
- Written by: Edward Keenan
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here.
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Some Great Idea
- Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 30-10-13
- Language: English
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- Written by: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Africa Is Not a Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, creating a fresh and multifaceted view of this vast continent.
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Written by: Richard Cockett
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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Street, Palace, Square
- The Architecture of Democratic Spaces
- Written by: Jan-Werner Müller
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Building requires power and resources – then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize an inclusive process by which as many citizens as possible can...
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Street, Palace, Square
- The Architecture of Democratic Spaces
- Narrated by: James Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Metropolis
- A history of cities - humankind’s greatest invention.
- Written by: Ben Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny...
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Metropolis
- A history of cities - humankind’s greatest invention.
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Written by: Anthony Townsend
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.
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Good Reading
- By Korath V Mathew on 03-04-21
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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Buda's Wagon
- A Brief History of the Car Bomb
- Written by: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of modern terrorism and car bombs—the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap near New York's Wall Street...
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Buda's Wagon
- A Brief History of the Car Bomb
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Form Follows Fever
- Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841-1849
- Written by: Christopher Cowell
- Narrated by: Christopher Cowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent early years of settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapour or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better.
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Form Follows Fever
- Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841-1849
- Narrated by: Christopher Cowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 27-05-25
- Language: English
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Black Public Joy
- No Permit or Permission Required
- Written by: Jay Pitter
- Narrated by: Jay Pitter
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An essay on restriction, resistance, and reclaiming space, Black Public Joy is essential reading for all politically engaged Canadians wanting to learn more about anti-Black racism in Canada. During a crucial moment in Black life in North America, Jay Pitter has been engaging directly and...
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Black Public Joy
- No Permit or Permission Required
- Narrated by: Jay Pitter
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 27-01-26
- Language: English
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No Place Like Home
- The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis
- Written by: Jessica Barrett
- Narrated by: Jessica Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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From award-winning journalist Jessica Barrett, an honest and urgent look at our housing crisis and lessons from around the world that will make better homes for all Canadians. After living in Vancouver for her entire adult life, Jessica Barrett packed up her apartment, quit her dream job as a...
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No Place Like Home
- The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Jessica Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- Written by: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On...
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The Killing Fields of East New York
- The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
- Narrated by: EJ Lavery
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 11-08-25
- Language: English
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Inventing Paradise
- The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
- Written by: Paul Haddad
- Narrated by: Paul Haddad
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.
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Inventing Paradise
- The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Paul Haddad
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Homes for Living
- The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
- Written by: Jonathan Tarleton
- Narrated by: Max Newland
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time...
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Homes for Living
- The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
- Narrated by: Max Newland
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 11-02-25
- Language: English
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The Sugar Girls
- Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
- Written by: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s...
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The Sugar Girls
- Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 29-03-12
- Language: English
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- Written by: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has...
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994
- The Modern South
- Written by: Seth A. Weitz
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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City of Hope, City of Rage gives a fascinating account of three turbulent and transformative decades in the history of Miami. Marked by mass immigration, racially motivated uprisings, economic inequity, rising crime, and social change, Miami's history from 1968 to 1994 saw the city evolve rapidly from a predominantly white city and vacation spot into a global, Hispanic-majority metropolis with an international tourist base. And yet Miami remains highly segregated today.
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City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994
- The Modern South
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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