Urban Sociology

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    • Auteur(s): David Wilkerson
    • Narrateur(s): Raymond Todd
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-11-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • David Wilkerson stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power....

    Prix courant: 17,26 $

    • Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
    • Auteur(s): Edward Keenan
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Paul
    • Durée: 6 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • 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 3 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Rachel Fulginiti
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    • Auteur(s): Elaine Sciolino
    • Narrateur(s): Elaine Sciolino
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

    Prix courant: 37,04 $

    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • Auteur(s): Mike Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Campbell
    • Durée: 15 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 33,40 $

    • Auteur(s): Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrateur(s): David Colacci
    • Durée: 13 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,38 $

    • A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
    • Auteur(s): Ben Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): John Sackville
    • Durée: 17 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • Auteur(s): Robert A. Caro
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 66 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-05-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 évaluations
    • Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York....

    Prix courant: 111,15 $

    • 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
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • Auteur(s): Erik Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
    • Durée: 14 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2002-12-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

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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....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Auteur(s): Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 12 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $

    • How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • 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....

    Prix courant: 30,87 $

    • 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 $

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Auteur(s): Katherine Boo
    • Narrateur(s): Sunil Malhotra
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Durée: 25 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

    Prix courant: 37,88 $

  • Prix courant: 31,26 $