Urban Politics

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    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • Auteur(s): Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Perry
    • Durée: 6 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
    • Auteur(s): Wade Graham
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Bellantoni
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • Auteur(s): Sam Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Sam Anderson
    • Durée: 14 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

    • What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan F. P. Rose
    • Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
    • Durée: 14 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050....

    Prix courant: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 41,67$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Joan Didion
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Durée: 5 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
    • Auteur(s): Anthony Townsend
    • Narrateur(s): Jeremy Arthur
    • Durée: 11 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
    • Auteur(s): Alex Krieger
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 12 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Krieger's compelling narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
    • Auteur(s): Seth D. Kaplan
    • Narrateur(s): Ron Butler
    • Durée: 6 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 44,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 44,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Cold War and the Making of Miami
    • Auteur(s): Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: Covert City examines why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Crime, Wealth, and Power - A Dispatch from the Beach
    • Auteur(s): Gerald Posner
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 18 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From its beginnings in the 1890s, Miami Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers....

    Prix courant: 26,72$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,72$ ou 1 crédit

    • San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
    • Auteur(s): Cary McClelland
    • Narrateur(s): Alma Cuervo, Ali Ahn, L. J. Ganser, Jonathan Todd Ross, Luis Moreno
    • Durée: 7 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The tech boom of our time is changing San Francisco at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been transformed by Silicon Valley....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): David Ulin
    • Narrateur(s): LJ Ganser
    • Durée: 4 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things....

    Prix courant: 19,77$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,77$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities
    • Auteur(s): Jorja Leap
    • Narrateur(s): Randye Kaye
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 2010 former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
    • Auteur(s): Mitchell Duneier
    • Narrateur(s): Prentice Onayemi
    • Durée: 10 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-11-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,86$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,86$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
    • Auteur(s): Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
    • Narrateur(s): Kyla García
    • Durée: 7 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. This is a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Diva Secret Agent
    • Auteur(s): Lorisa Bates
    • Narrateur(s): Wendy Law
    • Série: Benita Renee Jenkins, Livre 1
    • Durée: 8 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Growing up in "Do or Die Bed Stuy" Brooklyn, Benita Renee Jenkins hopes one day to become a crime scene investigator. However, things change when she unknowingly crosses paths with Miguel Perkins, a hot secret agent working for a clandestine agency....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): Eva Rosen
    • Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "Section 8", and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Community Transformation for the Common Good
    • Auteur(s): Alvin Sanders, Efrem Smith - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 4 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
    • Auteur(s): Jeevan Vasagar
    • Narrateur(s): Hugh Kermode
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,09$ ou 1 crédit