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Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- The Limits of Power
- By: Lynne A. Weikart
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York just four months after the 9/11 terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, and he led the rebuilding of a physically and emotionally devastated city so well that within two years, the city had budget surpluses. Weikart reveals how state and federal governments constrained Bloomberg's efforts to set municipal policy and implement his strategic goals in the areas of homelessness, low-income housing, poverty, education, and crime.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- The Limits of Power
- Narrated by: Kevin Meyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2021
- Language: English
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Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
- From Words to Housing (Homeless Narratives, Housing First and Pretreatment)
- By: Jay S. Levy
- Narrated by: Lisa Negron
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help? Listen for more.
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Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
- From Words to Housing (Homeless Narratives, Housing First and Pretreatment)
- Narrated by: Lisa Negron
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2021
- Language: English
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- By: Joseph Margulies
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success?
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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Ciudades hambrientas
- Cómo el alimento moldea nuestras vidas
- By: Carolyn Steel
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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La relación entre la comida y las ciudades es fundamental para nuestra vida cotidiana. La comida da forma a las ciudades y, a través de ellas, nos moldea, junto con el campo, que nos alimenta. Podría decirse que alimentar ciudades tiene un mayor impacto social y físico sobre nosotros y nuestro planeta que cualquier otra cosa que hagamos. Pero pocos de nosotros en Occidente somos conscientes del proceso. La comida aparece como por arte de magia y rara vez nos detenemos a preguntarnos cómo podría haber llegado allí.
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Ciudades hambrientas
- Cómo el alimento moldea nuestras vidas
- Narrated by: Pilar Corral
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: Spanish
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Jung, besorgt, abhängig. Eine Generation in der Krise
- By: Ronja Ebeling
- Narrated by: Franziska Trunte
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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"Ihr seid jung, euch gehört die Welt" - ein Satz, den die 24-jährige Ronja Ebeling schon oft gehört hat. Der Traumjob in den Zwanzigern, Eigenheim und Familie mit dreißig, dazwischen jede Menge Strandurlaube und Chancen zur persönlichen Entfaltung, und dann, im Alter, irgendwo im Grünen entspannt den Lebensabend verbringen. Doch die Realität? Die sieht leider anders aus. Anstatt sich auf unbefristeten Jobverträgen auszuruhen, pendelt die junge Generation von Praktikum zu Praktikum, statt Urlaub gibt es Burn-out, statt einer satten Rente den Ausblick auf Altersarmut. Und Kinder? Die kann sich heute doch eh keiner mehr leisten!
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Jung, besorgt, abhängig. Eine Generation in der Krise
- Narrated by: Franziska Trunte
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2021
- Language: German
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Urban Trauma
- A Legacy of Racism
- By: Maysa Akbar PhD
- Narrated by: Isabelle Kerby-McGowan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets. Saved by education. This is Dr. Maysa Akbar’s story. A story of overcoming urban trauma. It’s easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social disparities still exist when so many people of color, despite facing severe adversity, have done better.
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Urban Trauma
- A Legacy of Racism
- Narrated by: Isabelle Kerby-McGowan
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2021
- Language: English
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Detroit: Engine of America
- By: R. J. King
- Narrated by: R. J. King
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Detroit: Engine of America
- Narrated by: R. J. King
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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Misplacing Ogden, Utah
- Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
- By: Pepper Glass
- Narrated by: John Ford-Dunker
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems. Using Ogden, Utah, as a case study, Pepper Glass argues that urban reputations are “moral frontiers” that uphold and create divides between who is a good and respectable - or a bad and vilified - member of a community.
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Misplacing Ogden, Utah
- Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations
- Narrated by: John Ford-Dunker
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-01-2021
- Language: English
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- By: Mary Pattillo
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.
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Black Picket Fences
- Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- Narrated by: Jo Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2021
- Language: English
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Making the Second Ghetto
- Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
- By: Arnold R. Hirsch
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago's South Side.
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Making the Second Ghetto
- Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2021
- Language: English
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Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
- By: Heather Barrow
- Narrated by: David Stickney
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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A welfare capitalist, Henry Ford was a leader on many fronts - he raised wages, increased leisure time, and transformed workers into consumers, and he was the most effective at making suburbs an intrinsic part of American life. The decade was dominated by this new political economy - also known as "Fordism" - linking mass production and consumption. The rise of Dearborn demonstrated that Fordism was connected to mass suburbanization as well. Ultimately, Dearborn proved to be a model that was repeated throughout the nation.
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Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
- Narrated by: David Stickney
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2020
- Language: English
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Ciudades del Futuro: los Retos de la Arquitectura y el Diseño (Narración en Castellano) [Cities of the Future: The Challenges of Architecture and Design]
- By: Martha Thorne
- Narrated by: Cristina Serra
- Length: 12 mins
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La población urbana se duplicará en cuarenta años, algo que obliga a la transformación holística y sostenible del modelo de ciudad. Para Martha Thorne, decana de IE School of Architecture and Design y directora ejecutiva del Pritzker Architecture Prize, el gran reto de la arquitectura está en su capacidad para hacer metrópolis, que serán más densas y poseerán una alta calidad urbana y una mayor calidad de vida para los residentes.
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Ciudades del Futuro: los Retos de la Arquitectura y el Diseño (Narración en Castellano) [Cities of the Future: The Challenges of Architecture and Design]
- Narrated by: Cristina Serra
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2020
- Language: Spanish
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Public Gardens and Livable Cities
- Partnerships Connecting People, Plants, and Place
- By: Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, Sharon A. Lee
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Public Gardens and Livable Cities uses a prescriptive approach to synthesize a range of public, private, and nonprofit initiatives from municipalities throughout the country. In doing so, the authors examine the initiatives from a practical perspective to identify how they were implemented, their sustainability, the obstacles they encountered, the impact of the initiatives on their populations, and how they dealt with the communities' underlying social problems.
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Public Gardens and Livable Cities
- Partnerships Connecting People, Plants, and Place
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2020
- Language: English
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- By: Philip Mark Plotch
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects.
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2020
- Language: English
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The Power Within Me
- By: Akilah Imani Anderson
- Narrated by: Akilah Anderson, Pia Anderson Duncan
- Length: 17 mins
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Akilah is a 13-year old author who uses the power of pen and paper to vividly describe the roller coaster of emotions she’s encountered throughout her young life. At 13, Akilah has already experienced the challenges of navigating and overcoming obstacles associated with questioning her worth and the world’s expectations. This book provides a glimpse inside of Akilah’s challenges and how she used the power of her words to find the power within herself to prevail and continue her stride towards the best version of her.
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The Power Within Me
- Narrated by: Akilah Anderson, Pia Anderson Duncan
- Length: 17 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2020
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- By: Robert G. Spinney
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city - from the tycoons and the politicians, to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the 21st century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past.
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City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition
- A History of Chicago
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Moving Up, Moving Out
- The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
- By: Will Cooley
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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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. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream.
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Moving Up, Moving Out
- The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-04-2020
- Language: English
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Il governo Conte e l'accordo su Autostrade
- Rep digest 189
- By: Giovanni Pons, Tommaso Ciriaco, Giovanna Vitale, and others
- Narrated by: Elena Florenza, Daria Esposito, Luca Breda
- Length: 33 mins
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"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. Il governo Conte e l'accordo su Autostrade: Un buco da 19 miliardi se Autostrade perderà la concessione, di Giovanni Pons; Autostrade, Di Maio sfida Conte: "Voleva far saltare tutto", di Tommaso Ciriaco e Giovanna Vitale; Da Alitalia alle autostrade, torna lo Stato-padrone. Anche grazie alla pandemia, di Ettore Livini.
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Il governo Conte e l'accordo su Autostrade
- Rep digest 189
- Narrated by: Elena Florenza, Daria Esposito, Luca Breda
- Series: Rep digest 151-200, Book 189
- Length: 33 mins
- Release date: 24-07-2020
- Language: Italian
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Dopo il nuovo ponte di Genova, è il lavoro la sfida per l'Italia
- Rep Digest 195
- By: Dario Cresto-Dina, Francesco Merlo, Ettore Livini, and others
- Narrated by: Luca Breda, Federica Marino, Daria Esposito, and others
- Length: 36 mins
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Dopo il nuovo ponte di Genova, è il lavoro la sfida per l'Italia: Il confine di Genova, di Dario Cresto-Tina; Il Ponte dell'Italia che reagisce, di Francesco Merlo; Landini: "I lavoratori mantengano il posto o sarà scontro sociale", di Ettore Livini; Spinta alle imprese del Sud. Tasse sul lavoro -30%. Accordo sui licenziamenti, di Roberto Petrini; Senza il paracadute del governo un milione di posti sarebbe a rischio, di Ettore Livini; Lavoro, la tregua fragile, di Francesco Manacorda.
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Dopo il nuovo ponte di Genova, è il lavoro la sfida per l'Italia
- Rep Digest 195
- Narrated by: Luca Breda, Federica Marino, Daria Esposito, Stefano Starna
- Series: Rep digest 151-200, Book 195
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 14-08-2020
- Language: Italian
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Grandi opere. Ripresa o deregulation?
- Rep digest 187
- By: Giovanna Vitale, Francesco Bei, Roberto Petrini, and others
- Narrated by: Matteo De Martino, Elena Fiorenza, Luca Ghillino, and others
- Length: 28 mins
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Grandi opere: ripresa o deregulation? Semplificazioni verso il sì al decreto. L'ultimo nodo è l'abuso d'ufficio, di Giovanna Vitale; Lo scatto che ancora manca, di Francesco Bei; Poche gare e commissari, per gli appalti scatta la deregulation, di Roberto Petrini; Gli appalti senza gara, l'allergia alla concorrenza, di Sergio Rizzo; Grandi opere per 200 miliardi, ma il decreto non c'è ancora, di Giovanna Vitale; Dalle grandi opere dieci punti di Pil. Ma gli economisti sono scettici, di Roberto Petrini.
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Grandi opere. Ripresa o deregulation?
- Rep digest 187
- Narrated by: Matteo De Martino, Elena Fiorenza, Luca Ghillino, Federica Marino
- Series: Rep digest 151-200, Book 187
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2020
- Language: Italian
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