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  • San Fransicko cover art

    • San Fransicko

    • Why Progressives Ruin Cities
    • By: Michael Shellenberger
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse....

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    • An Invisible Thread

    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • Seeing Like a State

    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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    • Notorious London

    • A City Tour
    • By: Paul Deslandes, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Professor Paul Deslandes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In the 12 lessons of Notorious London: A City Tour, you will experience a rich sampling of some of the city’s most shocking stories and infamous personalities....

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    • City of Quartz

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

    • How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
    • By: Jeff Speck
    • Narrated by: Jeff Speck
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • Smart Cities

    • Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
    • By: Anthony Townsend
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future....

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    • Ten Cities That Led the World

    • From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made....

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    • Four Lost Cities

    • A Secret History of the Urban Age
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities....

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    • Affluenza

    • By: Oliver James
    • Narrated by: Oliver James
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions....

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    • Istanbul

    • Memories of a City
    • By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

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    • Report from Engine Co. 82

    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2003
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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    • Venice

    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • The Battle for Gotham

    • New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
    • By: Roberta Brandes Gratz
    • Narrated by: Carol Monda
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed....

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    • Vienna

    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2023
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • The Corner

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • The New York Nobody Knows

    • Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
    • By: William B. Helmreich
    • Narrated by: Mark Cabus
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Truly unforgettable, The New York Nobody Knows will forever change how you view the world's greatest city....

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    • Untenable

    • The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
    • By: Jack Cashill
    • Narrated by: Jack Cashill
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Long accused of racism and “white flight”, the ethnic Americans driven from their homes and neighborhoods—the author included—finally get the chance to tell their side of the story....

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