Urban Sociology

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    • Auteur(s): Leslie Kern
    • Narrateur(s): Parmida Vand
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Walking Plutocratic London
    • Auteur(s): Caroline Knowles
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Knowles
    • Durée: 12 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere....

    Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    • Auteur(s): Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
    • Narrateur(s): Roxana Ortega
    • Durée: 20 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….

    Prix courant: 50,94$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
    • Auteur(s): Sudhir Venkatesh
    • Narrateur(s): Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
    • Durée: 8 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-01-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....

    Prix courant: 27,96$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
    • Auteur(s): Felix Salmon
    • Narrateur(s): Felix Salmon
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

    • Principles of Economic Life
    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption
    • Auteur(s): Lisa Belkin
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder, Cheryl Smith
    • Durée: 12 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
    • Auteur(s): Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
    • Narrateur(s): Tristan Morris
    • Durée: 9 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
    • Auteur(s): Arnold R. Hirsch
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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

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    • A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
    • Auteur(s): Veronica O. Davis, Tamika L. Butler - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Tyanni Mah
    • Durée: 4 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering.

    Prix courant: 17,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
    • Auteur(s): Amanda Kolson Hurley
    • Narrateur(s): Kristin Price
    • Durée: 5 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these....

    Prix courant: 18,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A True Story of Murder in America
    • Auteur(s): Jill Leovy
    • Narrateur(s): Rebecca Lowman
    • Durée: 13 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
    • Auteur(s): Elijah Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): Gary Krist
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 11 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Suburbanization of the United States
    • Auteur(s): Kenneth T. Jackson
    • Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin
    • Durée: 14 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own....

    Prix courant: 28,14$ ou 1 crédit

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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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
    • Auteur(s): George Chauncey
    • Narrateur(s): Graham Halstead
    • Durée: 18 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century....

    Prix courant: 39,38$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 39,38$ 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

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