City Planning History
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Unruly Places
- Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
- By: Alastair Bonnett
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when Google Maps can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational systems, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination. Bonnett's remarkable tour includes moving villages, secret cities, no man's lands, and floating islands.
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Fascinating look at places you never thought of
- By Jody R. Nathan on 05-21-15
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Unruly Places
- Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-30-14
- Language: English
- In Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett goes to some of the most unexpected, offbeat places in the world to reinspire our geographical imagination....
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
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On a par with I'll Be Gone in the Dark, plus...
- By Grace O'Malley on 03-01-19
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-26-19
- Language: English
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."
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Fantastic text, dull on audio
- By Meghan on 02-13-15
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 09-13-11
- Language: English
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Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning"....
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- By: Stefan Al
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.
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Wanders from subject
- By Eduards J. Vucins on 06-21-22
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-12-22
- Language: English
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We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Stefan Al reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this boom....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Thought provoking
- By Alex Fuller on 07-18-23
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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: 03-31-20
- Language: English
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Krieger's compelling narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by....
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.
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Feels incomplete
- By M on 12-12-23
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River....
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Emerald Cities
- Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
- By: Joan Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.
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Informative, encyclopedic and very dry.
- By Jonathan on 06-07-11
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Emerald Cities
- Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-24-10
- Language: English
- Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development....
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Germaine Halegoua
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?
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Rich Information
- By Serial Amazon Shopper on 05-26-23
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-17-20
- Language: English
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis....
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Draining New Orleans
- The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
- By: Richard Campanella
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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In Draining New Orleans, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to "reclaim" the city's swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion.
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Draining New Orleans
- The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-16-24
- Language: English
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In Draining New Orleans, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City....
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- By: Mick Cornett, Jayson White
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America...and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country", Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places - and it is not alone.
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Feel-good fluff, not helpful for Urbanists
- By Jordan on 11-28-18
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-25-18
- Language: English
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From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years....
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