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Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition
- By: Irving Cutler
- Narrated by: Steve Ember
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago from the mudhole of the prairie to today's world-class city. This completely revised fourth edition skillfully weaves together the geography, history, economy, and culture of the city and its suburbs with a special emphasis on the role of the many ethnic and racial groups that comprise the "real Chicago" of its neighborhoods.
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Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition
- Narrated by: Steve Ember
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-03-2017
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 30-11-2016
- 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: 16-12-2016
- 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: 02-12-2016
- 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: 12-10-2016
- 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: 09-09-2016
- 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: 01-04-2016
- Language: English
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- By: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2015
- 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: 11-05-2015
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 10-09-2014
- Language: English
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Enough
- Our Fight to Keep America Safe From Gun Violence
- By: Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly
- Narrated by: Mark Kelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Gabrielle Giffords's documentary Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down is now in theaters nationwide! Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership. After the 2011 Tucson shooting that...
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Enough
- Our Fight to Keep America Safe From Gun Violence
- Narrated by: Mark Kelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 30-09-2014
- Language: English
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- By: Scott Huler
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-07-2014
- Language: English
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Crabgrass Frontier
- The Suburbanization of the United States
- By: Kenneth T. Jackson
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.
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Crabgrass Frontier
- The Suburbanization of the United States
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2014
- 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: 09-06-2014
- 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
- Unabridged
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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: 03-06-2014
- Language: English
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Deepening Community
- Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
- By: Paul Born
- Narrated by: Jon Repp
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional, and economic health. But in the chaos of modern life, community ties have become unraveled, leaving many feeling afraid or alone in the crowd, grasping at shallow substitutes for true community. In this thoughtful and moving book, Paul Born describes the four pillars of deep community: sharing our stories, taking the time to enjoy one another, taking care of one another, and working together for a better world.
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Deepening Community
- Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
- Narrated by: Jon Repp
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2014
- Language: English
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Ain’t No Makin’ It
- Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
- By: Jay MacLeod
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. 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". Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved listeners and challenged ethnic stereotypes.
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Ain’t No Makin’ It
- Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2014
- Language: English
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Cities Are Good for You
- The Genius of the Metropolis
- By: Leo Hollis
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better life and a better world in the future. From exploring what slime mold can tell us about traffic flow, to looking at how traditional civic power structures are being overturned by Twitter, to investigating how cities all over the world are tackling climate change, population growth, poverty, shifting work patterns and the maintenance of the fragile trust of their citizens, Cities Are Good for You offers a new perspective on the city.
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Cities Are Good for You
- The Genius of the Metropolis
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2014
- 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: 13-02-2014
- 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: 29-01-2014
- Language: English
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