Urban Sociology

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    • Written by: Donald Shoup
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-30
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems....

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    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • Written by: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
    • Written by: Edward Keenan
    • Narrated by: Adam Paul
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2013-10-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford....

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    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • Written by: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

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    • Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    • Written by: Samuel Stein
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined....

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    • How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
    • Written by: Alex Rosenblat
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2018-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland reveals the complicated politics of popular technologies and paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss....

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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • Written by: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • Written by: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 66 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • Written by: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • Written by: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2002-12-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • Written by: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2010-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
    • Written by: Elizabeth Hinton
    • Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2016-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem originated with the Reagan administration....

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    • Written by: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • Written by: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2017-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • Written by: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
    • Written by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood....

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    • How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
    • Written by: Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-11
    • Language: English
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    • In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges....

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    • The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street
    • Written by: Stephen Paul DeVillo
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-29
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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