Urban Sociology

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    • Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
    • Auteur(s): Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
    • Narrateur(s): Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 12 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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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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    • How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • Auteur(s): Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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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    • Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
    • Auteur(s): Paul Born
    • Narrateur(s): Jon Repp
    • Durée: 4 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • It's up to us to create community. Born shows that the opportunity is right in front of us if we have the courage and conviction to pursue it....

    Prix courant: 19,78$ 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 Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • Auteur(s): David Browne
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
    • Durée: 15 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Auteur(s): Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • 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

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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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    • 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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    • Handbook for an Urban Revolution
    • Auteur(s): Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 8 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • As New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ 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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    • 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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    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • Auteur(s): Annalee Newitz
    • Narrateur(s): Chloe Cannon
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
    • Auteur(s): Elijah Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Vince Bailey
    • Durée: 15 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Autopsy
    • Auteur(s): Charlie LeDuff
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Martin
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest....

    Prix courant: 23,35$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
    • Auteur(s): Sinclair McKay
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 16 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • 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

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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

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