Urban Design

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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 381 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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    • A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
    • By: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
    • Narrated by: Roman Mars
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • 99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse....

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    • How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
    • By: Alain Bertaud
    • Narrated by: Camille Mazant
    • Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground - the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings....

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    • 101 Steps to Making Better Places
    • By: Jeff Speck
    • Narrated by: Jeff Speck
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now....

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    • Water, Design, and Environmental Futures
    • By: Brook Muller - editor
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brook Muller offers a "hydro-logical" philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop....

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    • A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States....

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    • By: Donald Shoup
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems....

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    • Strategies for Sustainable Neighborhood Renewal and Community Empowerment
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dive into the innovative realm of urban metamorphosis with "Reimagining Urban Landscapes"— a thought-provoking exploration into the ...

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    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • By: Diana Lind
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

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    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • By: Richard Rothstein
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,658 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

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    • By: Napoleon Hill
    • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32,101 ratings
    • Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals....

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    • The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
    • By: Emily Anthes
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives....

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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • By: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Germaine Halegoua
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
    • By: Jonathan F. P. Rose
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Seth Fried
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders - one human, one AI - on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis....

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    • The Design of Everyday Life
    • By: Adam Greenfield
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us....

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