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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- By: Dawn Day Biehler
- Narrated by: Sarah Mariza
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From tenements, to alleyways, 20th-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions. In Pests in the City, Biehler argues that urban ecologies that supported pests were shaped not only by the physical features of cities, but also by social inequalities, housing policies, and ideas about domestic space. This story reveals how pests thrived on lax code enforcement; the marginalization of the poor, immigrants, and people of color; and at the intersection of public health, politics, and environmental justice.
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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Narrated by: Sarah Mariza
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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The Lifestyles of New Yorkers
- By: Sampson Obeng
- Narrated by: Marcus Jahn
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on Earth. I choked out a few words the first time I interacted with them. I immediately realized there is so much more to explore about their characteristics and to create a highly readable novel about them to the world's profundity of their lifestyles.
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The Lifestyles of New Yorkers
- Narrated by: Marcus Jahn
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Your Community
- You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
- By: Majora Carter
- Narrated by: Majora Carter
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But, too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get.
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Reclaiming Your Community
- You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
- Narrated by: Majora Carter
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-02-22
- Language: English
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The Black Butterfly
- The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
- By: Lawrence T. Brown
- Narrated by: Lady Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly - a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city like a butterfly's wings - Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings.
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The Black Butterfly
- The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
- Narrated by: Lady Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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A Block in Time
- A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
- By: Christiane Bird
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by 23rd Street to the south, 24th Street to the north, Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the east and Sixth Avenue to the west. It’s a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, theatres and factories, gambling dens and gourmet foods. It’s also the story of high life and low life, immigrants and tourists, farmers and aristocrats, crooked cops and moral reformers, toy stores and social climbers
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A Block in Time
- A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Black on the Block
- The Politics of Race and Class in the City
- By: Mary Pattillo
- Narrated by: Lelani Cobert
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo - a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century - uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.
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Black on the Block
- The Politics of Race and Class in the City
- Narrated by: Lelani Cobert
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-01-22
- Language: English
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In den Spuren des Verbrechertums
- Eine Reise durch das großstädtische Verbrechertum und seine Schlupfwinkel.
- By: Ernst Engelbrecht
- Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
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Die Texte Ernst Engelbrechts lassen tief in eine noch vom Kolonialgeist geprägte europäische Epoche blicken. Seine Umgangssprache pendelt zwischen Höflichkeit und herablassendem Leutnantsjargon und macht ihn zu einem der erfolgreichsten Autoren der Weimarer Republik. In Engelbrechts Worten zeigt sich das Sittenbild einer Gesellschaft, die sich nach dem verlorenen Krieg in einem neuen demokratischen System einzufinden versucht. Das ist interessant, erhellend, amüsant und manchmal auch erschreckend.
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In den Spuren des Verbrechertums
- Eine Reise durch das großstädtische Verbrechertum und seine Schlupfwinkel.
- Narrated by: Peter Bieringer
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 29-12-21
- Language: German
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
- The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
- By: Laurie Kaye Abraham, David A. Ansell MD - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises.
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
- The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-12-21
- Language: English
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Nest City
- How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities Serve Citizens
- By: Beth Sanders
- Narrated by: Beth Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nest City, Beth Sanders argues that our linear ways of thinking about, organizing, and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities as complex and messy systems. At a time when understanding the relationship between our physical, economic, and social habitats is essential, Sanders sets forth an approach to work with the disruptions of our times. Our work is what regenerates our cities. The city habitats we make for ourselves are as good as we choose to make them. If they’re not good enough, it’s up to us to improve them.
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Nest City
- How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities Serve Citizens
- Narrated by: Beth Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: English
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- The Limits of Power
- By: Lynne A. Weikart
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York just four months after the 9/11 terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, and he led the rebuilding of a physically and emotionally devastated city so well that within two years, the city had budget surpluses. Weikart reveals how state and federal governments constrained Bloomberg's efforts to set municipal policy and implement his strategic goals in the areas of homelessness, low-income housing, poverty, education, and crime.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- The Limits of Power
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-10-21
- Language: English
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- By: Joseph Margulies
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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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: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success?
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Ciudades hambrientas
- Cómo el alimento moldea nuestras vidas
- By: Carolyn Steel
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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La relación entre la comida y las ciudades es fundamental para nuestra vida cotidiana. La comida da forma a las ciudades y, a través de ellas, nos moldea, junto con el campo, que nos alimenta. Podría decirse que alimentar ciudades tiene un mayor impacto social y físico sobre nosotros y nuestro planeta que cualquier otra cosa que hagamos. Pero pocos de nosotros en Occidente somos conscientes del proceso. La comida aparece como por arte de magia y rara vez nos detenemos a preguntarnos cómo podría haber llegado allí.
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Ciudades hambrientas
- Cómo el alimento moldea nuestras vidas
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: Spanish
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Urban Trauma
- A Legacy of Racism
- By: Maysa Akbar PhD
- Narrated by: Isabelle Kerby-McGowan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets. Saved by education. This is Dr. Maysa Akbar’s story. A story of overcoming urban trauma. It’s easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social disparities still exist when so many people of color, despite facing severe adversity, have done better.
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Urban Trauma
- A Legacy of Racism
- Narrated by: Isabelle Kerby-McGowan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 22-03-21
- Language: English
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Detroit: Engine of America
- Narrated by: R. J. King
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Misplacing Ogden, Utah
- Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
- By: Pepper Glass
- Narrated by: John Ford-Dunker
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems. Using Ogden, Utah, as a case study, Pepper Glass argues that urban reputations are “moral frontiers” that uphold and create divides between who is a good and respectable - or a bad and vilified - member of a community.
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Misplacing Ogden, Utah
- Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
- Narrated by: John Ford-Dunker
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-01-21
- Language: English
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- By: Mary Pattillo
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
- By: Heather Barrow
- Narrated by: David Stickney
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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A welfare capitalist, Henry Ford was a leader on many fronts - he raised wages, increased leisure time, and transformed workers into consumers, and he was the most effective at making suburbs an intrinsic part of American life. The decade was dominated by this new political economy - also known as "Fordism" - linking mass production and consumption. The rise of Dearborn demonstrated that Fordism was connected to mass suburbanization as well. Ultimately, Dearborn proved to be a model that was repeated throughout the nation.
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Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
- Narrated by: David Stickney
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-11-20
- Language: English
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Ciudades del Futuro: los Retos de la Arquitectura y el Diseño (Narración en Castellano) [Cities of the Future: The Challenges of Architecture and Design]
- By: Martha Thorne
- Narrated by: Cristina Serra
- Length: 12 mins
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La población urbana se duplicará en cuarenta años, algo que obliga a la transformación holística y sostenible del modelo de ciudad. Para Martha Thorne, decana de IE School of Architecture and Design y directora ejecutiva del Pritzker Architecture Prize, el gran reto de la arquitectura está en su capacidad para hacer metrópolis, que serán más densas y poseerán una alta calidad urbana y una mayor calidad de vida para los residentes.
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Ciudades del Futuro: los Retos de la Arquitectura y el Diseño (Narración en Castellano) [Cities of the Future: The Challenges of Architecture and Design]
- Narrated by: Cristina Serra
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: Spanish
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- By: Philip Mark Plotch
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects.
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-08-20
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- By: Robert G. Spinney
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city - from the tycoons and the politicians, to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the 21st century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past.
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-04-20
- Language: English
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