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Abolish Rent
- How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
- Written by: Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
- Narrated by: Sharp Radway
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.
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Abolish Rent
- How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Sharp Radway
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 14-04-26
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- Written by: Alice Goffman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities. Forty years in, the tough-on-crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system but for their family members and working neighbors.
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 21-07-15
- Language: English
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Inclusive Transportation
- A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
- Written by: Veronica O. Davis, Tamika L. Butler - foreword
- Narrated by: Tyanni Mah
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the United States face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to divide communities? In Inclusive Transportation, expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering.
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Inclusive Transportation
- A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
- Narrated by: Tyanni Mah
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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Dream States
- Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
- Written by: John Lorinc
- Narrated by: David Attar
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year. But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities.
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Dream States
- Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
- Narrated by: David Attar
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-22
- Language: English
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Bad Therapist
- Exposure collection
- Written by: Evan Wright
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
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Chris Bathum was a respected therapist, addiction specialist, and founder of one of the fastest-growing rehabilitation chains in America. But Bathum was a total fraud: he was a homicidal meth-head with a history of sexually abusing his patients, scamming insurance companies, and eliminating whistle-blowers. Like Rose Stahl. But this intended victim would be his last. Stahl would risk her life to bring down the monster she and so many other people in need had once trusted for their salvation.
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Bad Therapist
- Exposure collection
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Series: Exposure Collection
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 30-05-19
- 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
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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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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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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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Fisherman's Blues
- A West African Community at Sea
- Written by: Anna Badkhen
- Narrated by: Anna Badkhen
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is...
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Fisherman's Blues
- A West African Community at Sea
- Narrated by: Anna Badkhen
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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Solved
- How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
- Written by: David Miller
- Narrated by: David Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can–and because they must.
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Solved
- How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
- Narrated by: David Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 09-03-24
- 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
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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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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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Livable Cities
- Narrated by: Mark Alan Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 15-06-21
- Language: English
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- Written by: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible.
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Imagine a City
- A Pilot Sees the World
- Written by: Mark Vanhoenacker
- Narrated by: Kyle Soller
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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As a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent nearly two decades crossing the skies of our planet, touching down in the cities he imagined as a child. He experiences our metropolises in short layover visits that repeat over weeks, months or even years, giving him a unique perspective on the urbanisation of the world. In this intimate yet expansive work that weaves travelogue with memoir, Mark celebrates the cities he has come to know and love, through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left.
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Imagine a City
- A Pilot Sees the World
- Narrated by: Kyle Soller
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Despite the Best Intentions
- How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
- Written by: Amanda E. Lewis, John B. Diamond
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers?
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Despite the Best Intentions
- How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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No One at the Wheel
- Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
- Written by: Samuel I Schwartz, Karen Kelly
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than...
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No One at the Wheel
- Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- Written by: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike, and stimulated widespread discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial and government institutions.
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 04-05-15
- 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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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
- Transportation for a Strong Town
- Written by: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities.
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
- Transportation for a Strong Town
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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