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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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Dream States
- Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
- 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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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- By: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere...
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 23-04-24
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Lines
- How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
- By: M. Nolan Gray
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news is that reform is in the air, with states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and Hartford, the key pillars of zoning are under fire, with apartment bans being scrapped, minimum lot sizes dropping, and off-street parking requirements disappearing altogether.
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Arbitrary Lines
- How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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Street Farm
- Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
- By: Michael Ableman
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the worst urban slums in North America, who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of farming and nourishing others as a way to heal our world and ourselves.
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Street Farm
- Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-10-16
- Language: English
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The Peter Kropotkin Collection
- An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Mutual Aid, & the Conquest of Bread
- By: Peter Kropotkin
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian activist, writer, revolutionary, scientist, economist, sociologist, historian, essayist, researcher, political scientist and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism. Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralised society based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises.
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The Peter Kropotkin Collection
- An Appeal to the Young, Law and Authority, Mutual Aid, & the Conquest of Bread
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- 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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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- By: Mitchell Duneier
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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Ghetto
- The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 30-11-16
- Language: English
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Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
- From Words to Housing (Homeless Narratives, Housing First and Pretreatment)
- By: Jay S. Levy
- Narrated by: Lisa Negron
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help? Listen for more.
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Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
- From Words to Housing (Homeless Narratives, Housing First and Pretreatment)
- Narrated by: Lisa Negron
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-10-21
- Language: English
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The Misunderstood History of Gentrification
- People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
- By: Dennis E. Gale
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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The origins of gentrification date back to World War I - only it was sometimes known as “remodeling” then. Dennis Gale’s insightful book The Misunderstood History of Gentrification provides a recontextualization of American gentrification, planning, and policymaking. He argues that gentrification must be understood as an urban phenomenon with historical roots in the very early 20th century.
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The Misunderstood History of Gentrification
- People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-02-22
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- By: Davarian L Baldwin
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But...
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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A Fortress in Brooklyn
- Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
- By: Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Hasidic Williamsburg is famous as one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy communities. Less known is how the community survived in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods during an era of steep decline, only to later oppose and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood.
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A Fortress in Brooklyn
- Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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The Stories Old Towns Tell
- A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe
- By: Marek Kohn
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They are never the whole story. Exploring seven old towns, from Frankfurt and Prague to Vilnius in Lithuania, Marek Kohn examines how they have been used since the Second World War to conceal political tensions and reinforce certain versions of history.
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The Stories Old Towns Tell
- A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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All Souls
- A Family Story from Southie
- By: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Narrated by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly...
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From Boston to Belfast
- By Kirston Scott on 21-08-22
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All Souls
- A Family Story from Southie
- Narrated by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- 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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Hello (And Goodbye) To All That
- A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century
- By: Jonathan Liebson
- Narrated by: Andrew Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Raised in suburban Chicago, Jonathan Liebson grew up hearing fabled stories about his father's childhood in New York. The Manhattan and Queens of his father's past, and the Lower East Side of his immigrant grandfather, always shimmered in the background—until one day Jonathan finally moved...
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Hello (And Goodbye) To All That
- A Memoir of a Changing New York in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Andrew Gibson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-07-25
- Language: English
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Charlotte
- Searching for Soul in a Booming Southern City
- By: Robert L. FitzPatrick
- Narrated by: Robert L. FitzPatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Charlotte is a tale of one city, a meditation and inquiry into the inner life of one Southern metro of 2.6 million. It is also a story of life in cities across America. It is about a profound and prevalent experience of daily life, yet so seldom acknowledged or allowed expression, it has no name. This book calls it Soul, referring to Sense of Place, Home, the universal and innate need of people to form attachment to and shape where they live.
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Charlotte
- Searching for Soul in a Booming Southern City
- Narrated by: Robert L. FitzPatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-08-25
- Language: English
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Solved
- How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
- 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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We the Poisoned
- Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
- By: Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.
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We the Poisoned
- Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 27-09-24
- Language: English
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