Urban Economics

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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 402 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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    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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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 6,060 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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    • 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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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives....

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    • By: Jane Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports....

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    • A Post Apocalytpic tale of Urban Survival
    • By: BJ Garcia
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • What would you do if the world as you knew it suddenly came crashing down around you? A financial system in shambles, America slowly slips closer ...

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • Matthew E. Kahn
    • By: Matthew Kahn
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-25
    • Language: English
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    • This book presents a broad overview of the key issues in modern environmental economics with a focus on understanding and solving urban pollution ...

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • By: Geoffrey West
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159 ratings
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

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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 74 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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    • Exploring the Intricate Dynamics of Urban and Regional Economics in a Globalized World
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the fascinating and ever-evolving world of metropolitan areas with "The Evolution of Metropolitan Areas" eBook. This comprehensive guide ...

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    • The Morazan Model for Free Cities
    • By: Joyce Brand
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • Are you an entrepreneur or investor seeking a fresh landscape for opportunity, far from the constraints of traditional economic models? Look no ...

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    • The Anxieties of Affluence
    • By: Rachel Sherman
    • Narrated by: Liz Thompson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society....

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    • Conversations with New Zealand's Economic Soul
    • By: Viv Grigg
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • The economic wisdom of the scriptures is critical in engaging the complex issues of families and New Zealand society in the global world. Ten ...

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • The Hidden Economics of Parking Lots
    • By: Jack Donahue
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-25
    • Language: English
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    • Under the Asphalt: The Hidden Economics of Parking Lots reveals an unexpected world beneath our everyday parking lots—a world where economics, ...

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