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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- By: Andre M. Perry
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes listeners on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.
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Know Your Price
- Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- By: Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.
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Building the Future
- Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-03-16
- Language: English
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The Women Who Made New York
- By: Julie Scelfo, Hallie Heald
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were...
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The Women Who Made New York
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Feet on the Street
- Rambles Around New Orleans
- By: Roy Blount Jr.
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first...
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Feet on the Street
- Rambles Around New Orleans
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-02-05
- Language: English
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Some Great Idea
- Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Ivention of Toronto
- By: Edward Keenan
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here.
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Some Great Idea
- Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Ivention of Toronto
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-10-13
- Language: English
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These Walls
- The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
- By: Eva Fedderly
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing In the tradition of Locking Up Our Own and The New Jim Crow, a rarely seen, thought-provoking journey...
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These Walls
- The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- By: Perry King
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport–team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's.
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Economy
- Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
- By: Felix Salmon
- Narrated by: Felix Salmon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Winner of the 2023 SABEW Best in Business Book Award for Investing and Personal Finance An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for...
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Takes a long time to not say very much sadly
- By Mr. Sw Radford on 16-09-23
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The Phoenix Economy
- Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
- Narrated by: Felix Salmon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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México
- La ciudad desbocada
- By: Martín Caparrós
- Narrated by: Matías Néspolo
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo."— Martín Caparrós
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México
- La ciudad desbocada
- Narrated by: Matías Néspolo
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-01-24
- Language: Spanish
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The Topophilia 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.
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The Topophilia Effect - How Places Affect Us
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-03-24
- Language: English
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Бандитский Петербург
- By: Андрей Константинов
- Narrated by: Роман Волков
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
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Бандитский Петербург — это самая полная криминальная история Северной столицы с момента ее основания до настоящего времени. "...в каком-то смысле книга Бандитский Петербург для меня — это бесконечная литературно-исследовательская каторга, отбывая которую с каждым годом все труднее находить в себе силы продолжать работу... И все-таки, как мне кажется, тема "Бандитского Петербурга", будучи сейчас не столь "спекулятивно-актуальной", как это было в девяностые годы прошлого столетия, по-прежнему остается интересной... Истории многих героев не завершены, а значит — не дорассказаны. Так что книга все еще не закончена". Андрей Константинов.
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Бандитский Петербург
- Narrated by: Роман Волков
- Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-03-24
- Language: Russian
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Guerrilla Gardening
- A Manualfesto
- By: David Tracey
- Narrated by: David Tracey
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist's nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this approach to urban beautification is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world.
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Not a lot of help here
- By Tout en chantant on 01-06-23
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Guerrilla Gardening
- A Manualfesto
- Narrated by: David Tracey
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-10-22
- Language: English
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City of Vice
- Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917
- By: James Mallery
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I. In the era of yellow journalism, San Francisco’s popular presses broadcast shocking stories about the waterfront, Chinatown, Barbary Coast, hobo Main Stem, Uptown Tenderloin, and Outside Lands. The women and men who lived in these districts did not passively internalize the shaming of their bodies or neighborhoods.
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City of Vice
- Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin.
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Powerful
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-24
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
- A Study in Urban Revolution
- Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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Cellmates
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- By: Tori Marlan
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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One prisoner’s ninety-year murder conviction becomes another prisoner’s crusade in this ongoing true account of an unlikely friendship forged behind bars and the enduring power of hope. For seventeen years and counting, Robert Chattler has made good on his promise to help exonerate his former cellmate, Lee Harris, who he believes was baited and duped by Chicago PD and buried by the false testimony of a bribed witness. In this emotional story of courage and trust, suspicion and sacrifice, Tori Marlan reveals the uncanny friendship powering an impassioned fight for justice.
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Cellmates
- Southside collection
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Series: Southside collection
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 28-08-18
- Language: English
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- By: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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Cities Are Good for You
- The Genius of the Metropolis
- By: Leo Hollis
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better life and a better world in the future. From exploring what slime mold can tell us about traffic flow, to looking at how traditional civic power structures are being overturned by Twitter, to investigating how cities all over the world are tackling climate change, population growth, poverty, shifting work patterns and the maintenance of the fragile trust of their citizens, Cities Are Good for You offers a new perspective on the city.
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Great Book, Shame About the Reading...
- By James on 29-06-15
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Cities Are Good for You
- The Genius of the Metropolis
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 21-03-14
- Language: English
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Rebuilding Earth
- Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans
- By: Teresa Coady, Christiana Figueres - introduction, Elizabeth May
- Narrated by: Lisa Lindsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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A revolutionary guide to designing humane, eco-conscious homes, buildings, and cities of the future. It is estimated that the earth's population will expand to an unprecedented nine billion people over the next century. This explosion in population is predicted to place further stress on our...
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Rebuilding Earth
- Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans
- Narrated by: Lisa Lindsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- By: Caylin Louis Moore
- Narrated by: Caylin Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass. A Dream to Big is for readers...
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Must Read
- By Anonymous on 22-07-19
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A Dream Too Big
- The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
- Narrated by: Caylin Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-06-19
- Language: English
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- By: Alex Krieger
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland.
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interesting
- By a lisa on 14-07-24
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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