Urban Sociology

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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrateur(s): Daniel Henning
    • Durée: 10 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • It was the street your mother warned you about - even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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 18 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Cold War and the Making of Miami
    • Auteur(s): Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
    • Durée: 8 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: Covert City examines why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
    • Auteur(s): Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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 110 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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 260 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
    • Auteur(s): Ada Calhoun
    • Narrateur(s): Carla Mercer-Meyer
    • Durée: 10 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed....

    Prix courant: 23,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Parking Explains the World
    • Auteur(s): Henry Grabar
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • An entertaining and enlightening, Paved Paradise is an utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • Auteur(s): Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 évaluations
    • This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....

    Prix courant: 19,99$ ou 1 crédit

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • Auteur(s): Germaine Halegoua
    • Narrateur(s): Wendy Tremont King
    • Durée: 5 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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$ ou 1 crédit

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