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Soul City
- Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
- By: Thomas Healy
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Author Thomas Healy resurrects a forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality in this fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”.
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Soul City
- Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
- Narrated by: Larry Herron
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2021
- Language: English
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American Ruin
- Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
- By: Michael Matthews
- Narrated by: Richard Spector
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. Over dozens of visits, he got to know the people - cops, reporters, and gang members as well as ordinary Detroiters trying to live their lives in peace, and formed deep bonds with them, which led him into places and situations, no writer has ever seen before. American Ruin is the story of Michael’s journey into the soul of this broken city - a shocking, violent, and heartbreaking portrayal of a modern tragedy.
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American Ruin
- Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City
- Narrated by: Richard Spector
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2019
- Language: English
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The Hustle of Kim Foxx
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- By: Steve Bogira
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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After the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by a white police officer, Chicagoans demanded change. Can a new state’s attorney, the first black woman to hold the position, bring real reform to a broken system? With a brick on her desk from the Cabrini-Green housing project where she spent her childhood, Kim Foxx must adapt her hard-won ideals to the realities of criminal justice in Chicago. In this intimate narrative by award-winning author Steve Bogira, Foxx reveals: “My mother taught me how to be a hustler. Hustle in the sense of work hard, grind - find a way out of no way.”
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The Hustle of Kim Foxx
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- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Series: Southside collection
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2018
- Language: English
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- By: Anthony Townsend
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.
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Smart Cities
- Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2013
- Language: English
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- By: P. D. Smith
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers - the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2013
- Language: English
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- By: Ross Perlin
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-04-2024
- Language: English
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Black in White Space
- The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
- By: Elijah Anderson
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings—and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police and attracted national media coverage. Why? In essence, Elijah Anderson would argue, because these were Black people existing in white spaces. In this book, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level.
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An affirming account about being the other.
- By Rowland Chitate on 16-10-2024
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Black in White Space
- The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Economy
- Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
- By: Felix Salmon
- Narrated by: Felix Salmon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for Investing and Personal Finance An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for...
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- By Anonymous on 19-05-2023
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The Phoenix Economy
- Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
- Narrated by: Felix Salmon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-05-2023
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves
- A Word from Forgotten Black America
- By: D. Watkins
- Narrated by: D. Watkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, the pages of We Speak for...
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We Speak for Ourselves
- A Word from Forgotten Black America
- Narrated by: D. Watkins
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2019
- Language: English
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed
- By: Rus Bradburd
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fired on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family.
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2018
- Language: English
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2017
- Language: English
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Show Me A Hero
- A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
- By: Lisa Belkin
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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NOW AN HBO MINISERIES Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred...
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Amazing book, absolutely riveting!
- By DC_ on 12-02-2019
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Show Me A Hero
- A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2015
- 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
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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: 18-11-2014
- 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: 19-03-2014
- Language: English
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A History of Future Cities
- By: Daniel Brook
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
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A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?
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A History of Future Cities
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 29-05-2013
- Language: English
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Life After Carbon
- The Next Global Transformation of Cities
- By: Peter Plastrik, John Cleveland
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create - especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. In Life After Carbon, urban sustainability consultants Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland assemble this global pattern of urban reinvention from the stories of 25 "innovation lab" cities across the globe.
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Life After Carbon
- The Next Global Transformation of Cities
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2018
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- By: Davarian L Baldwin
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But...
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A piercing piece of work in urban social justice
- By Amazon Customer on 28-11-2022
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2021
- Language: English
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- By: Alex Rosenblat
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees, Uberland goes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
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Uberland
- How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2018
- Language: English
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- By: Mick Cornett, Jayson White
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years. Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size...
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-09-2018
- Language: English
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- By: Jenny Schuetz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2022
- Language: English
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