Urban Studies

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    • Studies Among the Tenements of New York
    • Auteur(s): Jacob A. Riis
    • Narrateur(s): Bobby Brill
    • Durée: 7 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-09-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure....

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    • And Other Essays
    • Auteur(s): Bruce Benderson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Malos
    • Durée: 5 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-04-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this collection of essays, Benderson directs his exceptional powers of observation toward some of the most debated, as well as some of the most neglected, issues of our day....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
    • Auteur(s): Edward Humes
    • Narrateur(s): LJ Ganser
    • Durée: 15 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Edward Humes creates an unforgettable portrait of a chaotic system that is neither saving our children in danger nor protecting us from adolescent violence....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
    • Auteur(s): John King
    • Narrateur(s): Gabriel Vaughan
    • Durée: 7 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency
    • Auteur(s): Gary Rivlin
    • Narrateur(s): George Orlando
    • Durée: 13 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In 1983 Chicago elected Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor. This is the story of Washington's improbable victory over Jane Byrne....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Rus Bradburd
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
    • Auteur(s): Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 8 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-11-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy.....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities
    • Auteur(s): Jorja Leap
    • Narrateur(s): Randye Kaye
    • Durée: 8 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 2010 former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Tales of Soho
    • Auteur(s): Clayton Littlewood
    • Narrateur(s): Bruce Donnelly
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Dirty White Boy is a vivid mosaic of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future....

    Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Tarleton
    • Narrateur(s): Max Newland
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces listeners to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

    Prix courant: 24,56$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
    • Auteur(s): Will Cooley
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew L. Barnes
    • Durée: 6 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the 20th century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly mobile African Americans....

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    • Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
    • Auteur(s): Georgina Hickey
    • Narrateur(s): Sarah Beth Pfeifer
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn't be in public. Or, if they were, that they were not safe. Breaking the Gender Code tells the story of both this danger narrative and the resistance to it....

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    • Auteur(s): Haroun Khan
    • Narrateur(s): David Ahmad
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • On the 17th floor of a London council block, a study circle is held. They are studying the Koran, and Ishaq has been attending for five years, but official interest in the group is building. With an EDL march in just a few days' time, some of them think they might be under surveillance....

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    • Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
    • Auteur(s): Hanna Garth - editor, Ashanté M. Reese - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 8 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • For Black Americans, the food system is broken. When it comes to nutrition, Black consumers experience an unjust and inequitable distribution of resources. Black Food Matters examines these issues through in-depth essays....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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
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    • 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

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    • The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
    • Auteur(s): Laurie Kaye Abraham, David A. Ansell MD - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 14 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-12-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): R. J. King
    • Narrateur(s): R. J. King
    • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This is the story of how a crude French settlement along the Detroit River in 1701 became the birthplace of the automotive industry in 1900....

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    • Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
    • Auteur(s): William Julius Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): Vince Bailey
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-04
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged....

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    • A Word from Forgotten Black America
    • Auteur(s): D. Watkins
    • Narrateur(s): D. Watkins
    • Durée: 4 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income Black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occurring about them....

    Prix courant: 17,47$ ou 1 crédit

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