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  • Istanbul cover art

    • 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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    • England's Villages

    • An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
    • By: Dr Ben Robinson
    • Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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  • The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover art

    • The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

    • By: Donald Shoup
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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  • Seeing Like a State cover art

    • 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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    • Fragile Neighborhoods

    • Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
    • By: Seth D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Fragile states expert Seth D. Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America, one zip code at a time....

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    • Age of the City

    • Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
    • By: Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 22-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced....

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    • The Killing Fields of East New York

    • The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: EJ Lavery
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2025
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields.

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    • Underground London

    • By: Stephen Smith
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital....

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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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    • Talkin' Greenwich Village

    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • By: David Browne
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

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    • The Suburban Crisis

    • White America and the War on Drugs
    • By: Matthew D. Lassiter
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today....

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    • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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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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    • Vagabonds

    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-2024
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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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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