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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- Written by: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 30-04-10
- Language: English
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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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Livable Cities
- Written by: Mark Alan Hughes, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark Alan Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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Ours is an urban age. From Uruk and Eridu in ancient Mesopotamia to London and New York City in the 21st century, cities have long supported and sustained what makes us human. But can they survive the next 100 years? If so, they’re going to have to remain livable. In this 10-lecture series, focusing on that livability is at the heart of livable cities, Professor Mark Alan Hughes discusses why we seek out cities and how they create the conditions that allow us to meet our fundamental needs as individuals and as a human community.
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A great text for classroom use
- By Harini Nagendra on 02-07-21
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Livable Cities
- Narrated by: Mark Alan Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-21
- 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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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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Stroll
- Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
- Written by: Shawn Micallef
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Stroll celebrates Toronto's details at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.
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Stroll
- Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 16-10-13
- Language: English
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Written by: Richard Rothstein
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 26-07-17
- Language: English
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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- Written by: Leslie Kern
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place”. From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations....
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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 30-09-20
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Written by: Annalee Newitz
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.
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Four Lost Cities
- A Secret History of the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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A History of Future Cities
- Written by: Daniel Brook
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?
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A History of Future Cities
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release Date: 29-05-13
- Language: English
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Life After Cars
- Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
- Written by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek
- Narrated by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans...
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Life After Cars
- Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
- Narrated by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Written by: Germaine Halegoua
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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Key to the City
- How Zoning Shapes Our World
- Written by: Sara C. Bronin
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to create the communities we desire, and deserve. Drawing on her own experience leading the overhaul of Hartford's zoning code and exploring the efforts of activists and city planners across the country, Bronin shows how new codes are reshaping our cities.
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Key to the City
- How Zoning Shapes Our World
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 29-10-24
- 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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Bicycle/Race
- Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
- Written by: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
- Narrated by: Melissa Medina
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity.
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Bicycle/Race
- Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
- Narrated by: Melissa Medina
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Written by: Jeff Speck
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick.
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
- A New Map of a Persistent Idea (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
- Written by: Japonica Brown-Saracino
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working-class residents in London neighborhoods by the professional classes. The Death and Life of Gentrification traces how the word has far outgrown Glass's meaning, becoming a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and the loss of authenticity.
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
- A New Map of a Persistent Idea (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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Climatopolis
- How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
- Written by: Matthew E. Kahn
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how were going to avoid a hotter future but how were going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the worlds foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives.
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Climatopolis
- How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 27-09-10
- Language: English
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- Written by: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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