Urban Economics

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    • Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
    • By: Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty....

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    • 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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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • America's Lost Street Kids
    • By: Vivian Ho
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the fabric of her city and urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction....

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

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    • 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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    • Walking Plutocratic London
    • By: Caroline Knowles
    • Narrated by: Caroline Knowles
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • What do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere....

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    • The Anxieties of Affluence
    • By: Rachel Sherman
    • Narrated by: Liz Thompson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society....

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    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live....

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    • How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-2010
    • Language: English
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    • All places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives....

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    • Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
    • By: James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • With vision, clarity of thought, and a pragmatic worldview, Kunstler argues that the time for magical thinking and hoping for miracles is over....

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    • Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
    • By: Felix Salmon
    • Narrated by: Felix Salmon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for individuals and for the global economy....

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    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Mark Boyett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-2010
    • Language: English
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    • This book gathers in one place for the first time the research leading up to Richard Florida's theory on how the growth of the creative economy shapes the development of cities....

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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • By: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • Why We Need to Save the Country from Its Capital
    • By: Sam Bright
    • Narrated by: Sam Bright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • A vividly written and timely polemic, Fortress London tackles the burning injustices shaping British society today....

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    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • By: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrated by: Melissa Medina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

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    • "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
    • By: Eva Rosen
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "Section 8", and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights....

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