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California
- La fine del sogno
- By: Francesco Costa
- Narrated by: Francesco Costa
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probabilmente vorremmo avere un'economia in grande crescita e la piena occupazione: un paese in cui chiunque voglia lavorare possa farlo. Vorremmo avere le migliori università del pianeta e bellezze naturali adeguatamente valorizzate, prodotti culturali dall'influenza globale e la possibilità di definire «made in Italy» non solo un paio di scarpe ma anche un'app capace di costruire il futuro e un'idea che sappia cambiare il mondo.
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California
- La fine del sogno
- Narrated by: Francesco Costa
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-11-22
- Language: Italian
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Planet of Slums
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Couldn’t finish
- By Katarzyna on 28-10-24
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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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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.
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Powerful
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-24
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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A Brief History of London
- By: Jeremy Black
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, its international contexts, rather than on the city in isolation. It is the interactions of London that Black considers, and he does so in order to address the question as to why London became the foremost international city, how it sustained that position and what its future holds.
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A Brief History of London
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Notorious London
- A City Tour
- By: Paul Deslandes, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor Paul Deslandes
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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Performance32
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In the 12 lessons of Notorious London: A City Tour, you will experience a rich sampling of some of the city’s most shocking stories and infamous personalities. Taught by Professor Paul Deslandes of the University of Vermont, Notorious London dips into various regions and eras of London’s past to give you a multifaceted look into this remarkable metropolis.
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Disappointing and Unfinishable
- By Mel B-S on 21-11-23
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Notorious London
- A City Tour
- Narrated by: Professor Paul Deslandes
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-04-21
- Language: English
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The Infrastructure Book
- How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
- By: Sybil Derrible
- Narrated by: Derek Dysart
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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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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This Must Be the Place
- How Music Can Make Your City Better
- By: Shain Shapiro
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. 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. Told in an...
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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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Black Public Joy
- No Permit or Permission Required
- By: Jay Pitter
- Narrated by: Jay Pitter
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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An essay on restriction, resistance, and reclaiming space, Black Public Joy is essential reading for all politically engaged Canadians wanting to learn more about anti-Black racism in Canada. During a crucial moment in Black life in North America, Jay Pitter has been engaging directly and...
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Black Public Joy
- No Permit or Permission Required
- Narrated by: Jay Pitter
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-01-26
- Language: English
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Born in Flames
- The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
- By: Bench Ansfield
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peter Hendee Brown
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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How Real Estate Developers Think considers developers from three different perspectives. Brown profiles the careers of individual developers to illustrate the character of the entrepreneur; considers the roles played by innovation, design, marketing, and sales in the production of real estate; and examines the risks and rewards that motivate developers as people.
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Don’t judge by the title
- By Leandro Carvalho on 13-02-20
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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-12-15
- Language: English
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
- By: Donald Shoup
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Thorough but repetitive
- By R from UK on 24-04-24
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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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Inside Studio 54
- By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections that lead him to Studio 54.
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Giving up on this book...
- By Fatima on 20-01-22
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Inside Studio 54
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-02-18
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet
- Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
- By: Forrest Stuart
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Amid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they're capitalizing on the public's fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. But with what consequences? Ballad of the Bullet follows the Corner Boys, a group of 30 or so young men on Chicago's South Side who have hitched their dreams of success to the creation of "drill music" (slang for "shooting music").
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Ballad of the Bullet
- Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-05-20
- Language: English
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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- By: Peter Moskos
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the 1970s to the early 1990s, New York City was seen, justifiably, as out of control. The city approached bankruptcy, the subways were covered with graffiti, and murders were at a record high. Right-wing fearmongering and vigilante justice were countered by liberal pleas to end poverty and provide drug treatment—none of which happened. Then, in a surprising break from the past, new NYPD leadership decided to focus on crime. Between 1993 and 1996, New York City's murder numbers were cut in half, dropping to under 1,000 for the first time in decades.
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Back from the Brink
- Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- 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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Excellent<br />A truly different view of the world. <br />W<br />
- By Warren Keogh on 17-04-17
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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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Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need
- By: Jonathan Glancey
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis. It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the...
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Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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London in the Time of Dickens
- By: Lillian Nayder, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Lillian Nayder
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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In London in the Time of Dickens, you’ll get the unique opportunity to experience the British capital through the eyes of a literary master whose work is inextricably tied to the city and its rich history. Throughout 12 lectures taught by Professor Lillian Nayder of Bates College, you’ll tour the city of London in a time of rapid transformation through the life and work of Charles Dickens, uncovering the history of the metropolis, while also witnessing the everyday experiences of Londoners from all walks of life as Dickens represents them.
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London in the Time of Dickens
- Narrated by: Lillian Nayder
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-11-23
- Language: English
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The City of Today Is a Dying Thing
- In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
- By: Des Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Des Fitzgerald
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in Japan, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often problematic roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are.
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Vagueness (in search for…)
- By Sterren Botha on 05-05-24
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The City of Today Is a Dying Thing
- In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Des Fitzgerald
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Wolf Moon
- A Woman's Journey into the Night
- By: Arifa Akbar
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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The night is a time of darkness and nightmares, fear and vulnerability, especially for women. And, yet, it is another world, full of beauty and possibility, too. After the sun goes down, insomnia and sleep paralysis do threaten. But some have always walked the nocturnal landscapes, with more or less confidence. Others have worked, night shifts and hidden night work: nurses, security guards, sex workers. And some have found solace in the darkness, from queer rave culture to religious pre-dawn traditions.
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Wolf Moon
- A Woman's Journey into the Night
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are; they'll be plagued with gum disease and stand a decent chance of violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? But choose they did.
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Fascinating!
- By C. A. Mealing on 08-05-17
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Built on Bones
- 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-02-17
- Language: English
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