Urban Economics

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    • Auteur(s): Donald Shoup
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 23 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-06-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): James C. Scott
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Kramer
    • Durée: 16 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • Auteur(s): Geoffrey West
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Mann
    • Durée: 19 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 évaluations
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Richard Cockett
    • Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
    • Durée: 14 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Auteur(s): Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 12 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • Auteur(s): Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Gibel
    • Durée: 7 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • The Anxieties of Affluence
    • Auteur(s): Rachel Sherman
    • Narrateur(s): Liz Thompson
    • Durée: 9 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society....

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • Auteur(s): Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lofbomm
    • Durée: 13 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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 Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
    • Auteur(s): Alex Rosenblat
    • Narrateur(s): Emily Beresford
    • Durée: 7 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland reveals the complicated politics of popular technologies and paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss....

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    • Auteur(s): Mike Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Lenz
    • Durée: 7 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

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    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • Auteur(s): Richard Florida
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 8 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

    Prix courant: 32,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 11 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports....

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • Auteur(s): Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 5 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • Auteur(s): Gary Younge
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 6 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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    • The Eruption of Delhi
    • Auteur(s): Rana Dasgupta
    • Narrateur(s): Dana Hickox
    • Durée: 15 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: The expansion of the global elite....

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    • How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
    • Auteur(s): Richard Florida
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Boyett
    • Durée: 8 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-08-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives....

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    • Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
    • Auteur(s): Forrest Stuart
    • Narrateur(s): Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Durée: 11 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Ballad of the Bullet follows the Corner Boys, a group of 30 or so young men on Chicago's South Side who have hitched their dreams of success to the creation of "drill music" (slang for "shooting music")....

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