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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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    • 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 380 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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    • 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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    • 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 82 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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    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

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    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 191 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Blair Brown
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24,737 ratings
    • Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s....

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    • Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
    • By: Jonathan Foiles
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me brings policy and psychology together....

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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 90 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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    • Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
    • By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City - a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide....

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    • Why Progressives Ruin Cities
    • By: Michael Shellenberger
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,499 ratings
    • Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse....

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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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    • Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
    • By: Deb Chachra
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....

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

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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 5,989 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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    • A City's Triumph over Tragedy
    • By: Casey Sherman, Dave Wedge
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombing with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building....

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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 58 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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    • How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
    • By: Diane Kalen-Sukra
    • Narrated by: Diane Kalen-Sukra
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Toxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our capacity to collaborate and innovate together is also being undermined by the rising incivility and divisiveness....

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