Urban Sociology

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    • 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: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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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
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    • 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

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    • From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
    • Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Durée: 8 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-02-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made....

    Prix courant: 30,09$ 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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    • 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....

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    • The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome
    • Auteur(s): Rodney Stark
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 6 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Drawing on both archaeological and historical evidence, Stark is able to provide hard statistical evidence on the religious life of the Roman Empire to discover the facts that set conventional history on its head....

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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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    • A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
    • Auteur(s): Brandon Harris
    • Narrateur(s): Brandon Massey
    • Durée: 8 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A young African American millennial filmmaker's funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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....

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    • The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
    • Auteur(s): Emily Anthes
    • Narrateur(s): Suzie Althens
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives....

    Prix courant: 39,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
    • Auteur(s): Paul Born
    • Narrateur(s): Jeff Hoyt
    • Durée: 5 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent....

    Prix courant: 22,17$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
    • Auteur(s): Lacey Fosburgh
    • Narrateur(s): Cynthia Farrell
    • Durée: 6 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon....

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

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    • Murder and Memory in an American City
    • Auteur(s): Laura Tillman
    • Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children....

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    • 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....

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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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    • 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

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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...

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