Urban Sociology

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    • What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
    • Auteur(s): David Owen
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....

    Prix courant: 32,41 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41 $ ou 1 crédit

    • How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities
    • Auteur(s): Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, Jeffrey R. Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Dysart
    • Durée: 12 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Brian D. Taylor, Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown tell the story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the twentieth century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the twenty-first....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Josephine Ensign
    • Narrateur(s): Holly Adams
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83 $ 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

    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • Auteur(s): Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 10 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,50 $ ou 1 crédit

    • How a Great City Lost Its Soul
    • Auteur(s): Jeremiah Moss
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
    • Durée: 15 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • An unflinching portrait of gentrification in the 21st century, and a love letter to lost New York, by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York....

    Prix courant: 42,33 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 42,33 $ ou 1 crédit

    • An Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action
    • Auteur(s): Jack Pransky
    • Narrateur(s): Risa Rae
    • Durée: 9 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Modello is an inspirational true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Housing Projects, applying the Three Principles/Health Realization approach based on an innovative spiritual psychology....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    • A Journey into the Real Russia
    • Auteur(s): Anne Garrels
    • Narrateur(s): Anne Garrels
    • Durée: 8 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, Garrels crafts an intimate portrait of the nation's heartland. We meet ostentatious mafiosos, upwardly mobile professionals....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

    • The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
    • Auteur(s): Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
    • Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
    • Durée: 9 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-09-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars....

    Prix courant: 38,96 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,96 $ ou 1 crédit

    • A Journey Through American Loneliness
    • Auteur(s): Kristen Radtke
    • Narrateur(s): Kristen Radtke
    • Durée: 1 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This - a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society....

    Prix courant: 11,66 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 11,66 $ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 32,31 $ ou 1 crédit

    • On the Secret Trail of Trash
    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Royte
    • Narrateur(s): Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino
    • Durée: 11 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27 $ ou 1 crédit

    • A Family Story from Southie
    • Auteur(s): Michael Patrick MacDonald
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Patrick MacDonald
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world"....

    Prix courant: 32,63 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,63 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Fugitive Life in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Alice Goffman
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 11 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
    • Auteur(s): William Powers
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 7 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a tiny cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in New York City? Find out....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
    • Auteur(s): Jay MacLeod
    • Narrateur(s): Christian Rummel
    • Durée: 20 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and the "Hallway Hangers"....

    Prix courant: 46,24 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 46,24 $ ou 1 crédit

    • The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Kozol
    • Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
    • Durée: 9 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Amazing Grace is a book about about the hearts of children who grow up in the South Bronx - the poorest congressional district of our nation....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00 $ ou 1 crédit

    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • Auteur(s): Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrateur(s): Melissa Medina
    • Durée: 5 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

    Prix courant: 19,30 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,30 $ ou 1 crédit

    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • Auteur(s): Thomas Abt
    • Narrateur(s): Brad Raymond
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24 $ ou 1 crédit

    • New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
    • Auteur(s): Nicole Gelinas
    • Narrateur(s): Cara Firestone
    • Durée: 22 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city.

    Prix courant: 33,40 $ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40 $ ou 1 crédit