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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 397 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 1,628 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 94 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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    • 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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    • A Practical Introduction
    • By: Carl Stephani, Marilyn Stephani
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • This is an introduction to city planning for the non-professional who wants to understand the content of city plans and the processes involved in ...

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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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    • 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 87 ratings
    • Because We Say So presents more than 30 concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power....

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    • A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
    • By: J. Anthony Lukas
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families....

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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 46 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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    • 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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    • A Prepper’s Guide To Surviving and Thriving in a City When the Government Takes Control
    • By: Kyle Harrison
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • So, here we are. You picked up this book because, deep down, you know that "Martial Law" isn’t just something you read about in history books or ...

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    • Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
    • By: P. E. Moskowitz
    • Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • Taking listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities and how we can get it back.

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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 6,039 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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    • San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
    • By: John King
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building....

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    • By: Titus Gebel
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Imagine a system in which a private company offers you protection of life, liberty, and property as a "government service provider". This service includes internal and external security, a legal and regulatory framework, and independent dispute resolution....

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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 244 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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    • 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 889 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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