Urban Politics

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    • The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
    • De: James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrado por: Al Kessel
    • Duración: 12 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-08-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness....

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    • Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
    • De: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrado por: Vince Bailey
    • Duración: 15 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-13-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street....

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • De: Geoffrey West
    • Narrado por: Bruce Mann
    • Duración: 19 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-16-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158 calificaciones
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

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    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • De: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrado por: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Duración: 11 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-19-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 calificaciones
    • Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrado por: Adam Verner
    • Duración: 6 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-21-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
    • Duración: 20 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-18-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 calificaciones
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • De: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrado por: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Duración: 11 h y 33 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-11-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 calificaciones
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • De: Jill Leovy
    • Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
    • Duración: 13 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-27-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,896 calificaciones
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • De: Ross Perlin
    • Narrado por: Ross Perlin
    • Duración: 10 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 calificaciones
    • 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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    • How Parking Explains the World
    • De: Henry Grabar
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 10 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-09-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 calificaciones
    • An entertaining and enlightening, Paved Paradise is an utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • De: Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrado por: L. Steven Taylor
    • Duración: 8 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-25-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010 calificaciones
    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

    Precio regular: $13.97 o 1 crédito

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • De: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
    • Duración: 13 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-06-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • De: Sam Anderson
    • Narrado por: Sam Anderson
    • Duración: 14 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-21-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010 calificaciones
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

    Precio regular: $22.50 o 1 crédito

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    • How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
    • De: Bernadette Atuahene
    • Narrado por: Amir Abdullah
    • Duración: 10 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-28-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the story of two grandfathers—one white, one black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain.

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    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • De: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
    • Duración: 8 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-11-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 calificaciones
    • In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • De: Richard Cockett
    • Narrado por: Gareth Richards
    • Duración: 14 h y 49 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-26-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • 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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    • Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
    • De: Thomas Dyja
    • Narrado por: Jacques Roy, Thomas Dyja - introduction
    • Duración: 17 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-16-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 calificaciones
    • A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future....

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    • A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
    • De: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
    • Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Duración: 7 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-18-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.

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    • The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
    • De: Thomas Hager
    • Narrado por: Marc Vietor
    • Duración: 6 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-01-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 calificaciones
    • Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River....

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