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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities cover art

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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 Swamp Peddlers

    • How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
    • By: Jason Vuic
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s....

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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 Color of Law

    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • By: Richard Rothstein
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Bad Therapist

    • Exposure collection
    • By: Evan Wright
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Series: Exposure Collection
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Inside the biggest scandal in the history of America’s $40 billion drug recovery industry: a predatory Malibu rehab guru - and the fearless female patient who exposed his empire of deceit....

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    • Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did....

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    • Living Sustainably

    • What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence
    • By: A. Whitney Sanford
    • Narrated by: Effie Bradley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living....

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    • Imperial San Francisco

    • Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3)
    • By: Gray Brechin
    • Narrated by: Gray Brechin
    • Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests....

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    • Inside Studio 54

    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • Gay New York

    • Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
    • By: George Chauncey
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century....

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    • A Fortress in Brooklyn

    • Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
    • By: Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 6 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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    • Feminist City

    • A Field Guide
    • By: Leslie Kern
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods....

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