Urban Sociology

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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 1,159 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

    • 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

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    • 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

    • 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 4,708 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

    • 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 30,964 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

    • 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 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 1,006 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

    • 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

    • 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 6,057 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 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 107 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....

    Precio regular: $18.00

    • La lucha por el espacio en un mundo diseñado por hombres [Claiming Space in a Man-Made World]
    • De: Leslie Kern
    • Narrado por: Sara Juárez
    • Duración: 7 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-31-22
    • Idioma: Español
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • Leslie Kern expone lo que está oculto a simple vista: las desigualdades sociales construidas en nuestras ciudades, hogares y vecindarios. Kern ofrece una visión alternativa de la ciudad feminista....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • De: Richard Florida
    • Narrado por: Traber Burns
    • Duración: 8 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-06-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 204 calificaciones
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

    Precio regular: $17.16

    • 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

    • 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

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • De: Katherine Boo
    • Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
    • Duración: 8 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-07-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,307 calificaciones
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

    Precio regular: $15.75

    • How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
    • De: M. Nolan Gray
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 7 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 calificaciones
    • The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling....

    Precio regular: $21.49

    • 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 73 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

    • 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.

    Precio regular: $17.49