Urban Politics

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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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    • 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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    • 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 378 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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    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social 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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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 463 ratings
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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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 21 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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    • The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
    • By: James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness....

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    • The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
    • By: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level....

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    • How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
    • By: Edward Glaeser
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 426 ratings
    • America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap....

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    • Searching for Tupac Shakur
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist....

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    • A Laundry Files Novel
    • By: Charles Stross
    • Narrated by: Gideon Emery
    • Series: Laundry Files, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,819 ratings
    • Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • By: Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • By: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • By: Jean Fullerton
    • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war....

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    • A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
    • By: Natalie Y. Moore
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation on the South Side of Chicago through reported essays....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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