The Failed City
An Autopsy of Urban Collapse
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The Failed City
Narrated by:
Nick Gallagher
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Narrated by:
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Nick Gallagher
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David Boles
About this listen
An Autopsy of Urban Collapse. In late September 2013, a road crew buried 150-year-old cobblestones under fresh asphalt on Baldwin Avenue in the Jersey City Heights. Something durable was concealed beneath something disposable, for the convenience of the least permanent users of the road. That institutional habit, the preference for covering failure rather than studying it, is the subject of this audiobook. Twenty case studies across five taxonomies of urban failure, spanning two millennia, three continents, and one diagnostic framework for understanding why cities die and why we refuse to study the ones that did.
©2026 David Boles (P)2026 David Boles
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