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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
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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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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- Written by: Lizabeth Cohen
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal.
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Saving America's Cities
- Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- Written by: Richard Haw
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
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John Roebling was one of the 19th century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the 19th century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn.
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Engineering America
- The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 28 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 29-12-20
- Language: English
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America on Fire
- The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
- Written by: Elizabeth Hinton
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the country’s leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration Between 1964 and 1972...
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America on Fire
- The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 18-05-21
- 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
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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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Freedom to Discriminate
- How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
- Written by: Gene Slater
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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A landmark history told with narrative skill, Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors' definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. His book traces the increasingly aggressive ways realtors justified their practices, how they successfully weaponized the word "freedom" for their cause, and how conservative politicians have drawn directly from realtors' rhetoric for the past several decades.
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Freedom to Discriminate
- How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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The Suburban Crisis
- White America and the War on Drugs
- Written by: Matthew D. Lassiter
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
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Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.
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The Suburban Crisis
- White America and the War on Drugs
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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The Black Butterfly
- The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
- Written by: Lawrence T. Brown
- Narrated by: Lady Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly - a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city like a butterfly's wings - Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings.
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The Black Butterfly
- The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
- Narrated by: Lady Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Written by: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 01-08-17
- Language: English
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- Written by: Alex Krieger
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland.
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- Written by: Andre M. Perry
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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One Day
- The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
- Written by: Gene Weingarten
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday...
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One Day
- The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns
- A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
- Written by: Dar Williams
- Narrated by: Dar Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played...
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns
- A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
- Narrated by: Dar Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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Move
- Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
- Written by: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job seeker, or a community leader. If people can't move, if goods are delayed, and if information networks can't connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates, and social inequity grows.
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Move
- Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 11-05-15
- Language: English
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- Written by: Susan Crabtree, Jedd McFatter, Peter Schweizer - introduction
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize most of them share one thing in...
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 11-03-25
- Language: English
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Cities in the Wilderness
- A New Vision of Land Use in America
- Written by: Bruce Babbitt
- Narrated by: Bruce Babbitt
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.
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Cities in the Wilderness
- A New Vision of Land Use in America
- Narrated by: Bruce Babbitt
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 23-02-10
- Language: English
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- Written by: Jenny Schuetz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- Written by: Suleiman Osman
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation.
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 29-01-14
- Language: English
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Down in New Orleans
- Reflections from a Drowned City
- Written by: Billy Sothern
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Billy Sothern's Down in New Orleans illustrates, in very human and heartbreaking ways, how the horrors that emerged during and following Hurricane Katrina existed long before the storm. These beautifully composed stories not only reveal the dignity—and amazing grit and grace—of the hurricane's survivors; they also illuminate larger truths about the urgent issues of our day.
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Down in New Orleans
- Reflections from a Drowned City
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 04-03-10
- Language: English
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The Battle for Gotham
- New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- Written by: Roberta Brandes Gratz
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s master builder Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways. Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses.
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The Battle for Gotham
- New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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