Urban Sociology

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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 106 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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    • 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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    • A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
    • Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • 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.

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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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    • Written by: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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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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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Written by: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • How Parking Explains the World
    • Written by: Henry Grabar
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2023-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • Written by: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2012-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    • Written by: Jeff Speck
    • Narrated by: Jeff Speck
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability....

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • Written by: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
    • Written by: Elaine Sciolino
    • Narrated by: Elaine Sciolino
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 2015-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure....

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    • The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    • Written by: Geoffrey West
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks....

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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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    • 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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    • How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
    • Written by: M. Nolan Gray
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2022-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Written by: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Written by: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2023-12-26
    • Language: English
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    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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