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  • Seeing Like a State cover art

    • Seeing Like a State

    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings

    • 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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    • The Last London

    • True Fictions from an Unreal City
    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • 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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    • San Fransicko

    • Why Progressives Ruin Cities
    • By: Michael Shellenberger
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

    • 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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    • Inside Studio 54

    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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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
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • 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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    • Istanbul

    • Memories of a City
    • By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • 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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    • Underground London

    • By: Stephen Smith
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital....

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  • Venice cover art

    • Venice

    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • 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.”....

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    • London Orbital

    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....

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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
    • Release date: 09-04-24
    • Language: English
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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.

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    • Report from Engine Co. 82

    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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    • Capital City

    • Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    • By: Samuel Stein
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined....

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    • Eyes on the Street

    • The Life of Jane Jacobs
    • By: Robert Kanigel
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day....

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    • A Brief History of London

    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • It is the interactions of London that Black considers, and he does so in order to address the question as to why London became the foremost international city, how it sustained that position and what its future holds....

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    • Bad Therapist

    • Exposure collection
    • By: Evan Wright
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Series: Exposure Collection
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings

    • Inside the biggest scandal in the history of America’s $40 billion drug recovery industry: a predatory Malibu rehab guru - and the fearless female patient who exposed his empire of deceit....

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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
    • Release date: 21-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • 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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    • The Sugar Girls

    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
    • By: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
    • Narrated by: Penny McDonald
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories....

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  • Feminist City cover art

    • Feminist City

    • A Field Guide
    • By: Leslie Kern
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • 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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