Urban Planning History

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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 70 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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    • Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
    • By: Alex Krieger
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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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    • Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
    • By: Alastair Bonnett
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • 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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    • The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
    • By: Mick Cornett, Jayson White
    • Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
    • By: Thomas Hager
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • 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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    • The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
    • By: Richard Campanella
    • 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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    • Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
    • By: DJ Waldie
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays....

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    • People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
    • By: Dennis E. Gale
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
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    • The origins of gentrification date back to World War I - only it was sometimes known as “remodeling” then. Dennis Gale’s insightful book The Misunderstood History of Gentrification provides a recontextualization of American gentrification, planning, and policymaking....

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    • An American Tragedy
    • By: Patricia Vaccarino
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Yonkers Carnegie Library was commonly held to be the most beautiful building in the city. No one seemed to know for sure why it was destroyed. ...

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    • Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Vishal Menon
    • Length: 20 hrs
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
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    • For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant....

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