Urban Economics

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    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

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    • The Anxieties of Affluence
    • By: Rachel Sherman
    • Narrated by: Liz Thompson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society....

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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • By: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

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    • Walking Plutocratic London
    • By: Caroline Knowles
    • Narrated by: Caroline Knowles
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • What do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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    • By: Donald Shoup
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Why We Need to Save the Country from Its Capital
    • By: Sam Bright
    • Narrated by: Sam Bright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A vividly written and timely polemic, Fortress London tackles the burning injustices shaping British society today....

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    • Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
    • By: Seth D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....

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    • Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
    • By: Jay MacLeod
    • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-14
    • Language: English
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    • With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and the "Hallway Hangers"....

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    • Studies Among the Tenements of New York
    • By: Jacob A. Riis
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Colburn and 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, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • By: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrated by: Melissa Medina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

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    • Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
    • By: James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • With vision, clarity of thought, and a pragmatic worldview, Kunstler argues that the time for magical thinking and hoping for miracles is over....

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    • Zwischen Kreativität und Kontrolle - die junge Megacity, die unsere Welt verändert
    • By: Frank Sieren
    • Narrated by: Frank Sieren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-21
    • Language: German
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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...

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    • Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
    • By: Forrest Stuart
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • America's Lost Street Kids
    • By: Vivian Ho
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the fabric of her city and urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction....

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