Urban Sociology

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    • An Enduring American Challenge (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
    • By: Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, Ben Feldmeyer
    • Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-22
    • Language: English
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    • Social scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy....

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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 397 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 Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
    • By: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars....

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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 162 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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    • 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 358 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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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-03
    • Language: English
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    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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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 529 ratings
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

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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 76 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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    • The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
    • By: Jonathan Tarleton
    • Narrated by: Max Newland
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
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    • In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces listeners to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

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    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • By: Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

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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 425 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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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,865 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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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 1,158 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: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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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 196 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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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • By: Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
    • By: Joseph Margulies
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
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    • Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today....

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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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