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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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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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Bicycle/Race
- Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
- Written by: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
- Narrated by: Melissa Medina
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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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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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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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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The World Is Always Coming to an End
- Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
- Written by: Carlo Rotella
- Narrated by: Carlo Rotella
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood—a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting—or avoiding—each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened.
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The World Is Always Coming to an End
- Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
- Narrated by: Carlo Rotella
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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Shenzhen - Zukunft Made in China
- Zwischen Kreativität und Kontrolle - die junge Megacity, die unsere Welt verändert
- Written by: Frank Sieren
- Narrated by: Frank Sieren
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Wer wissen möchte, wie wir und vor allem unsere Kinder bald schon leben, welche Technologien sie und die Welt prägen werden, muss durch Shenzhen streifen. Die 12-Millionen-Metropole in Südchina gehört zu den innovativsten Städten der Welt. Eine Megacity, die quasi aus dem Nichts entstand, wo Nachhaltigkeit und moderne Lebensqualität selbstverständlich sind, aber eben auch Gesichtserkennung und der gläserne Mensch. Die Cloud in Shenzhen weiß alles. Die Shenzhener Techies stellen inzwischen das Silicon Valley in den Schatten, ihre Start-ups zählen zu den wertvollsten der Welt.
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Shenzhen - Zukunft Made in China
- Zwischen Kreativität und Kontrolle - die junge Megacity, die unsere Welt verändert
- Narrated by: Frank Sieren
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 06-07-21
- Language: german
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- Written by: Mary Pattillo
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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The Lines Between Us
- Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide
- Written by: Lawrence Lanahan
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore’s inner city, and Nicole, a Black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today.
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The Lines Between Us
- Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 20-05-19
- Language: English
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Who’s Your City?
- How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
- Written by: Richard Florida
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who's Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.
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Who’s Your City?
- How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 02-08-10
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Written by: Rachel Sherman
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-17
- Language: English
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Written by: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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Cities and the Creative Class
- Written by: Richard Florida
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Cities and the Creative Class gathers in one place for the first time the research leading up to Richard Florida's theory on how the growth of the creative economy shapes the development of cities and regions. In a new introduction, Florida updates this theory and responds to the critics of his 2002 best seller, The Rise of the Creative Class.
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Cities and the Creative Class
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 20-05-10
- Language: English
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners.
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Race for Profit
- How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Written by: Scott Huler
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 29-07-14
- Language: English
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Written by: David A. Ansell
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In
The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients.
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The Death Gap
- How Inequality Kills
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Written by: Alex Rosenblat
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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A good book to understand Platform economy
- By Shipra on 23-04-19
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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The Company Town
- The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy
- Written by: Hardy Green
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, offers a compelling analysis of the emergence of these communities and their role in shaping the American economy, beginning in the country's earliest years....
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The Company Town
- The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy
- Narrated by: L J Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 14-09-10
- 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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