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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Amazing. The Wire before The Wire.
- By T Grist on 26-12-20
By: David Simon, and others
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: Covert City examines why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow....
By: Vince Houghton, and others
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse....
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If you really want to understand homelessness..
- By The Tuscan on 03-05-22
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London Orbital
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
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London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....
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Pure Poetry
- By Mad Jeff on 13-04-23
By: Iain Sinclair
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A Child of the East End
- By: Jean Fullerton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war....
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Excellent
- By lovebooks on 16-03-23
By: Jean Fullerton
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....
By: Dennis Romano
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Amazing. The Wire before The Wire.
- By T Grist on 26-12-20
By: David Simon, and others
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: Covert City examines why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow....
By: Vince Houghton, and others
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse....
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If you really want to understand homelessness..
- By The Tuscan on 03-05-22
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London Orbital
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
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London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....
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Pure Poetry
- By Mad Jeff on 13-04-23
By: Iain Sinclair
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A Child of the East End
- By: Jean Fullerton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war....
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Excellent
- By lovebooks on 16-03-23
By: Jean Fullerton
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
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Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning"....
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Cities are complex organic organisms
- By Anonymous User on 09-02-24
By: Jane Jacobs, and others
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Underground London
- By: Stephen Smith
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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In Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital....
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Shame about the narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 22-02-11
By: Stephen Smith
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Order Without Design
- How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
- By: Alain Bertaud
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
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Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground - the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings....
By: Alain Bertaud
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England's Villages
- An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
- By: Dr Ben Robinson
- Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist....
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Interesting but...
- By Grace on 18-04-24
By: Dr Ben Robinson
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Affluenza
- By: Oliver James
- Narrated by: Oliver James
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions....
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Inspiring, puzzling, obvious, paradoxical
- By Glenn on 29-09-13
By: Oliver James
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....
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Self indulgent and random
- By Paul E T Henty on 21-08-15
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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Building and Dwelling
- Ethics for the City
- By: Richard Sennett
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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The preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai....
By: Richard Sennett
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An Invisible Thread
- The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
- By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....
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One of the most inspirational books I've ever read
- By H Tipton on 03-02-23
By: Laura Schroff, and others
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The Connected Community
- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
- By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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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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An inspiring guide
- By Charl on 20-12-22
By: Cormac Russell, and others
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....
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Once seen, can it be unseen?
- By Amazon Customer on 16-01-19
By: James C. Scott
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The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit....
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Finally, Iain Sinclair!
- By katy on 24-04-21
By: Iain Sinclair
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Ten Cities That Led the World
- From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made....
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A shallow collection of random facts on 10 cities
- By David Jackson on 21-09-22
By: Paul Strathern
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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- By: Leslie Kern
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods....
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Ruined by 'notes'
- By Miriam on 02-04-21
By: Leslie Kern
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Vienna
- How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- By: Richard Cockett
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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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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Excellent content, frustrating performance
- By Daniel Hook on 23-04-24
By: Richard Cockett
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The Phoenix
- St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
- By: Leo Hollis
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement....
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Leo Hollis, The Phoenix
- By Jane on 18-10-23
By: Leo Hollis
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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
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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.
By: Ross Perlin
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Iconicon
- A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
- By: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: John Grindrod
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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Iconicon explores Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome....
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Required reading/listening for urbanists.
- By Andrew Wood on 20-03-22
By: John Grindrod
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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- By: William B. Helmreich
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Truly unforgettable, The New York Nobody Knows will forever change how you view the world's greatest city....
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Serious Money
- Walking Plutocratic London
- By: Caroline Knowles
- Narrated by: Caroline Knowles
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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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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Spoilt by narration
- By paul w. on 20-12-23
By: Caroline Knowles
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This Is London
- Life and Death in the World City
- By: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital, for better and for worse....
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A Painful Read
- By M. McGuirk on 23-12-21
By: Ben Judah
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- By: Colin Ellard
- Narrated by: John Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space....
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Exceptional Narration, Stunning Research
- By Brinda G. on 05-08-21
By: Colin Ellard
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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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In Black in White Space, 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....
By: Elijah Anderson
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Age of the City
- Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
- By: Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....
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Comprehensive, clear and engaging
- By Michael Bailey on 17-09-23
By: Ian Goldin, and others
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Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond
- An Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action
- By: Jack Pransky
- Narrated by: Risa Rae
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Modello is an inspirational true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Housing Projects, applying the Three Principles/Health Realization approach based on an innovative spiritual psychology....
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Exceptional account of the human potential
- By Emma Beirne on 14-10-22
By: Jack Pransky
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Queering Urbanism
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- By: Stathis G. Yeros
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia, Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement.
By: Stathis G. Yeros
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
By: Vince Houghton, and others
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.
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American Indians and the American Dream
- Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota
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In American Indians and the American Dream, Kasey R. Keeler examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota.
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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
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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.
By: Ross Perlin
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Good Karma
- How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering
- By: Thubten Chodron
- Narrated by: Peter Aronson
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Why do things happen the way they do in our lives? How do we create the causes for a happy life? The Buddhist practice of mind training gives us the answer to these questions: it involves overcoming our self-centered attitude and replacing it with an attitude that cherishes others. This, in turn, leads us to act in ways that naturally lead away from suffering and toward happiness—in short, to create good karma.
By: Thubten Chodron
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Queering Urbanism
- Insurgent Spaces in the Fight for Justice
- By: Stathis G. Yeros
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia, Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement.
By: Stathis G. Yeros
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Covert City
- The Cold War and the Making of Miami
- By: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrated by: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
By: Vince Houghton, and others
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Our Better Nature
- Environment and the Making of San Francisco
- By: Philip J. Dreyfus
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both.
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American Indians and the American Dream
- Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota
- By: Kasey R. Keeler
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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In American Indians and the American Dream, Kasey R. Keeler examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota.
By: Kasey R. Keeler
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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
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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.
By: Ross Perlin
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Good Karma
- How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering
- By: Thubten Chodron
- Narrated by: Peter Aronson
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Why do things happen the way they do in our lives? How do we create the causes for a happy life? The Buddhist practice of mind training gives us the answer to these questions: it involves overcoming our self-centered attitude and replacing it with an attitude that cherishes others. This, in turn, leads us to act in ways that naturally lead away from suffering and toward happiness—in short, to create good karma.
By: Thubten Chodron
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Long Live Queer Nightlife
- How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
- By: Amin Ghaziani
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties—club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out.
By: Amin Ghaziani
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Solved
- How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
- By: David Miller
- Narrated by: David Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can–and because they must.
By: David Miller
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The Topaphilia Effect - How Places Affect Us
- By: Roberta Rio
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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What effect do the places where we live or work have on us? Historian Roberta Rio, who researches the history of buildings, apartments and properties for her clients, regularly comes across astonishing and recurrent patterns. In this book she reveals what the Etruscans, the Romans and Cathedral architects all knew about the effects of places, what we ourselves should know and how we can find it out. Rio offers us a refreshingly down-to-earth summary of the findings of her research, and makes it practicable for our own personal use.
By: Roberta Rio
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.
By: Dennis Romano
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Breaking the Gender Code
- Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
- By: Georgina Hickey
- Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of urban gender segregation in the twentieth century, focusing on organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the Progressive Era, with its calls for public restrooms, safe and accessible transportation, and public accommodations, through and beyond second-wave feminism, and its focus on the creation of alternative, women-only spaces and extensive anti-violence efforts.
By: Georgina Hickey
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The New City
- How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
- By: Dickson Despommier
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.