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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- By: Jon Scott Logel
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored.
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Designing Gotham
- West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
- Narrated by: Mark Kamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-17
- Language: English
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Kristin S. Seefeldt
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets, which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers.
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Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in the Other America
- By: Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Kathryn Edin
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from 10 years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nation's poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage.
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Coming of Age in the Other America
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-05-17
- Language: English
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- By: Brandon Harris
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the...
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
- A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
- Narrated by: Brandon Massey
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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The City in Texas
- A History
- By: David G. McComb
- Narrated by: R.T. McKnight
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The rise of Texas cities is a fascinating story that has not been previously told. Yet it is essential for understanding both the state's history and its contemporary character.
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The City in Texas
- A History
- Narrated by: R.T. McKnight
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-12-16
- Language: English
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Saving Our Cities
- A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
- By: William W. Goldsmith
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane.
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Saving Our Cities
- A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 16-12-16
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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An Unnatural Metropolis
- Wresting New Orleans from Nature
- By: Craig E. Colten
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city". How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis.
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An Unnatural Metropolis
- Wresting New Orleans from Nature
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-09-16
- Language: English
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Sidewalking
- Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
- By: David Ulin
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city's built environment, a meditation on the author's relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking.
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Sidewalking
- Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-04-16
- Language: English
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- By: Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-03-16
- Language: English
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Move
- Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
- By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- By: Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran...
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Busted
- A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
- Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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Empire City
- The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
- By: David M. Scobey
- Narrated by: Jim Feldman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Empire City tells the story of the dreams that inspired the changes in the landscape and the problems that eluded solution. Author David Scobey paints a remarkable panorama of New York's uneven development, a city-building process careening between obsessive calculation and speculative excess. Envisioning a new kind of national civilization, “bourgeois urbanists” attempted to make New York the nation's pre-eminent city.
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Empire City
- The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape
- Narrated by: Jim Feldman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-09-14
- Language: English
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No Matter How Loud I Shout
- A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
- By: Edward Humes
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Granted unprecedented access to the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, including the judges, the probation officers, and the children themselves, Edward Humes creates an unforgettable portrait of a chaotic system that is neither saving our children in danger nor protecting us from adolescent violence. Yet he shows us there is also hope in the handful of courageous individuals working tirelessly to triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds.
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No Matter How Loud I Shout
- A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-09-14
- Language: English
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How Racism Takes Place
- By: George Lipsitz
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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Revealing how seemingly race-neutral urban sites contain hidden racial assumptions and imperatives, Lipsitz examines the ways in which urban space and social experience are racialized and emphasizes that aggrieved communities do not passively acquiesce to racism. He recognizes the people and communities that have re-imagined segregated spaces in expressive culture as places for congregation.
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How Racism Takes Place
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-06-14
- Language: English
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Dream City
- Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
- By: Harry S. Jaffe, Tom Sherwood
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists expose one of America's most tragic ironies: How the nation's capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating conflicts over race, class, and power. Jaffe and Sherwood have chillingly chronicled the descent of the District of Columbia.
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Dream City
- Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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The Battle for Gotham
- New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
- 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 Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
- Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
- By: Brenda Stevenson
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot.
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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
- Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
- Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- 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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China National Human Development Report
- By: UNDP China
- Narrated by: Henry Tenenbaum, Coirle Magee
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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A groundbreaking review of China's historic urbanization and an analysis of the opportunities and hazards ahead for the world's most populous nation. China's accelerating urbanisation is approaching a critical stage, and how this is managed will have wide ramifications for the outcomes of many of China's present development challenges, according to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China's 2013 National Human Development Report (NHDR).
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China National Human Development Report
- Narrated by: Henry Tenenbaum, Coirle Magee
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-01-14
- Language: English
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