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    • Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
    • By: Charles Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time....

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    • How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
    • By: Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

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    • Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings
    • This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

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    • A Primer on Local Government Politics
    • By: Carl Stephani, Marilyn Stephani
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager ...

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    • By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 891 ratings
    • In this unprecedented account, The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone....

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    • The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
    • By: Mark Pendergrast
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade....

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    • War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939–1945
    • By: Neill Lochery
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated....

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    • What the Investigation Missed - and Why It Still Matters
    • By: Andrew Gumbel, Roger G. Charles
    • Narrated by: Todd Waring
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb....

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    • City Lights Open Media Series
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Because We Say So presents more than 30 concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • From the heart of one of the most beloved performers in music comes a candid memoir of professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory....

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    • The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
    • By: Jonathan A. Rodden
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the same states' legislatures? Find out....

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    • Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
    • By: Jeffrey Toobin
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin reveals the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection....

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    • Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    • By: Samuel Stein
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
    • By: Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
    • Narrated by: Ephraim Mattos
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII....

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    • Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
    • By: Megan Kimble
    • Narrated by: Megan Kimble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward....

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    • A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
    • By: Alexis Madrigal
    • Narrated by: Alexis Madrigal
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • NPR host Alexis Madrigal reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,048 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Portrait of a City Between East and West
    • By: Victor Sebestyen
    • Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • From the critically acclaimed historian Victor Sebestyen, the enthralling  account of historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe....

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