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Planet of Slums
- Written by: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt?
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Planet of Slums
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 23-06-20
- 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 Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm.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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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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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
- Written by: Donald Shoup
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
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In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 30-06-18
- Language: English
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- Written by: James Bridle
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: The belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Author James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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The Swamp Peddlers
- How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
- Written by: Jason Vuic
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded homesite that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build.
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The Swamp Peddlers
- How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 21-06-21
- Language: English
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Born in Flames
- The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
- Written by: Bench Ansfield
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” This phrase was supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, and it became a defining expression of a turbulent time in American history. Throughout the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color.
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Born in Flames
- The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- Written by: Samuel Stein
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms 60 percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and developer.
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 25-06-19
- 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 Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- Written by: Emily Anthes
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks.
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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The Infrastructure Book
- How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
- Written by: Sybil Derrible
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet—all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently. Virtually everything we do and consume depends on infrastructure. Yet, most people have no idea how these systems work. How is water treated? How do cities manage rainwater? Why do traffic jams exist? How is electricity generated and distributed? What happens to trash after it is picked up? How does the Internet work?
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The Infrastructure Book
- How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Written by: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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The Combat Zone
- Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice
- Written by: Jan Brogan
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.
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The Combat Zone
- Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Written by: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Us versus Them
- Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods
- Written by: Jan Doering
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Crime and gentrification are hot-button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians navigate the thorny politics of race as they fight crime or resist gentrification? And do conflicts over competing visions of neighborhood change necessarily divide activists into racially homogeneous camps, or can they produce more complex alliances and divisions? In Us Versus Them, Jan Doering answers these questions through an in-depth study of two Chicago neighborhoods.
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Us versus Them
- Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Written by: Jessica Trounstine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early 20th century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them.
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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This Must Be the Place
- How Music Can Make Your City Better
- Written by: Shain Shapiro
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed, and governed.
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This Must Be the Place
- How Music Can Make Your City Better
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley
- Drowned by the Quabbin
- Written by: Elena Palladino
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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In April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts sacrificed these three towns to build the Quabbin, a massive reservoir of drinking water for residents of Boston. Three prominent residents attended the somber occasion.
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley
- Drowned by the Quabbin
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 22-08-23
- 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 Woman on the Windowsill
- A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
- Written by: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, this volume pinpoints the sensational crime as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history that radically changed the nature of justice and the established social order.
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The Woman on the Windowsill
- A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 18-02-20
- Language: English
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