Urban Sociology

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • De: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
    • Duración: 10 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 calificaciones
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • 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 1,159 calificaciones
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

    Precio regular: $24.75

    • Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
    • De: Joseph Margulies
    • Narrado por: Mike Lenz
    • Duración: 8 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-19-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 calificaciones
    • Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • De: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrado por: Janina Edwards
    • Duración: 12 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-24-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 114 calificaciones
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • De: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrado por: Robertson Dean
    • Duración: 66 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-20-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,713 calificaciones
    • Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....

    Precio regular: $54.00

    • Modern Library Chronicles Series, Book 21
    • De: Joel Kotkin
    • Narrado por: Nelson Runger
    • Duración: 7 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-08-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • Joel Kotkin explores the history of cities around the globe. He argues that urban areas must be places where there is a shared feeling of sacredness, civic identity, and moral order....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • De: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrado por: Dion Graham
    • Duración: 11 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-01-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,059 calificaciones
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    • De: Jeff Speck
    • Narrado por: Jeff Speck
    • Duración: 6 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-01-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007 calificaciones
    • Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • De: Erik Larson
    • Narrado por: Scott Brick
    • Duración: 14 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-29-02
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,982 calificaciones
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

    Precio regular: $22.50

    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • De: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrado por: Holly Adams
    • Duración: 8 h y 43 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-17-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 calificaciones
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

    Precio regular: $21.49

  • Precio regular: $24.75

    • Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
    • De: Rob Schmitz
    • Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
    • Duración: 12 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-27-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 calificaciones
    • Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity....

    Precio regular: $15.47

    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • De: Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrado por: Sean Pratt
    • Duración: 10 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 calificaciones
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

    Precio regular: $15.47

    • The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
    • De: Ashley Dawson
    • Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
    • Duración: 12 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-30-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 calificaciones
    • In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
    • De: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
    • Narrado por: Karen Chilton
    • Duración: 8 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-29-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy.....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • Community Transformation for the Common Good
    • De: Alvin Sanders, Efrem Smith - foreword
    • Narrado por: Mirron Willis
    • Duración: 4 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-13-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Pastors and church planters interested in Christian community development will find here practical insights into the power of the local church, which is often underrated. Churches can serve their communities and improve the quality of life of every facet of the neighborhood....

    Precio regular: $13.75

    • 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 17 calificaciones
    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

    Precio regular: $20.99

    • De: Donald Shoup
    • Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
    • Duración: 23 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-30-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 calificaciones
    • In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems....

    Precio regular: $34.39

    • The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
    • De: Sam Bloch
    • Narrado por: Shawn K. Jain
    • Duración: 9 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-22-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all.

    Precio regular: $19.80

    • De: James C. Scott
    • Narrado por: Michael Kramer
    • Duración: 16 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-22-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 calificaciones
    • 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....

    Precio regular: $21.46