Urban Sociology

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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 156 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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    • Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
    • By: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrated by: Vince Bailey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 188 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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    • 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 5,987 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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    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

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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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    • 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 108 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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    • The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
    • By: Mitchell Duneier
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present....

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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 466 ratings
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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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 380 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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    • 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 1,156 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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    • 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
    • By: Jonathan Mahler
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods....

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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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    • Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    • By: Elaine Sciolino
    • Narrated by: Elaine Sciolino
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 523 ratings
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

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    • Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
    • By: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical LA literature to everyday citizens....

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    • Community Transformation for the Common Good
    • By: Alvin Sanders, Efrem Smith - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pastors and church planters interested in Christian community development will find here practical insights into the power of the local church, which is often underrated. Churches can serve their communities and improve the quality of life of every facet of the neighborhood....

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    • A Family Story from Southie
    • By: Michael Patrick MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world"....

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