City Architecture

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    • A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
    • By: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
    • Narrated by: Roman Mars
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast....

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    • A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
    • By: Fran Leadon
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the 17th century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the 20th century's Great White Way....

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    • Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access
    • By: David Gissen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment....

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    • Walking New York
    • By: Michael Kimmelman
    • Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murray, Eileen Noonan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, and friends, inviting them to take a walk. Wherever they liked, he wrote—preferably someplace meaningful to them....

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    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • By: Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

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    • Baseball in the American City
    • By: Paul Goldberger
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s, to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime....

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    • The Biography, Trade and Enterprise
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-11-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Trade and Enterprise explores London as a center for international trade, finance, and culture....

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    • How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
    • By: Stefan Al
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Stefan Al reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this boom....

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    • How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
    • By: Dickson Despommier
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Cities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and wildlife habitats to shrink.

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    • The Story of Grime
    • By: Dan Hancox
    • Narrated by: Ash Hunter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders from the margins of urban life went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime....

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    • The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
    • By: Jason M. Barr
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers comes a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe....

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    • How a Train Station Transformed America
    • By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sam Roberts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th anniversary....

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    • San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
    • By: John King
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco's iconic Ferry Building....

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