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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 14-07-16
- 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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The Legend of the Black Mecca
- Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
- Written by: Maurice J. Hobson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between White progressives, business interests, and Black Atlantans. But Atlanta's political leadership has consistently mishandled the Black poor.
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The Legend of the Black Mecca
- Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- Written by: Caylin Louis Moore
- Narrated by: Caylin Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass. A Dream to Big is for readers...
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- Narrated by: Caylin Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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Brooklyn
- The Once and Future City
- Written by: Thomas Campanella
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 22 hrs and 23 mins
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America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades - celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.
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Brooklyn
- The Once and Future City
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 22 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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