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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- By: Davarian L. Baldwin
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes listeners from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities.
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
- How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
- Narrated by: Wayne Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Thirty-Eight Witnesses
- The Kitty Genovese Case
- By: A.M. Rosenthal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors - and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses, the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York, continues to disturb us. We would like to think that we would step in and do what we could to stop the carnage.
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Thirty-Eight Witnesses
- The Kitty Genovese Case
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- By: Alex Krieger
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland.
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- By a lisa on 14-07-24
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City on a Hill
- Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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Human Targets
- Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
- By: Victor M. Rios
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life - putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD.
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Human Targets
- Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-04-17
- Language: English
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- By: Cloward Fox Piven
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.
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Regulating the Poor
- The Functions of Public Welfare
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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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
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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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Untenable
- The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
- Narrated by: Jack Cashill
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-07-23
- Language: English
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- By: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Author, social critic, and “New York City’s career elegist” (New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanized and sanitized. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire social class abandons the city? Out in streets made vibrant by New Yorkers left behind, Moss found a sense of freedom he never thought possible.
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Feral City
- On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
- Narrated by: Jeremiah Moss
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Names of New York
- Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
- By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Narrated by: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on New York City’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated 800 languages now spoken in New York.
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Thoughtful and insightful.
- By J L Thomas on 08-06-24
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Names of New York
- Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
- Narrated by: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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Fariña
- Historia e indiscreciones del narcotráfico en Galicia
- By: Nacho Carretero
- Narrated by: Humberto Solorzano
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Un ensayo muy bien documentado sobre una realidad oscura de Galicia.
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Fariña
- Historia e indiscreciones del narcotráfico en Galicia
- Narrated by: Humberto Solorzano
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-02-19
- Language: Spanish
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Sex and Isolation
- And Other Essays
- By: Bruce Benderson
- Narrated by: Bob Malos
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Winner of France's 2004 Prix de Flore for his memoir The Romanian: Story of an Obsession, Bruce Benderson has gained international respect for his controversial opinions and original take on contemporary society. In this collection of essays, Benderson directs his exceptional powers of observation toward some of the most debated, as well as some of the most neglected, issues of our day.
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Sex and Isolation
- And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Bob Malos
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-04-13
- Language: English
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Digital Humanitarians
- How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
- By: Patrick Meier
- Narrated by: Trevor White
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information—social media, satellite imagery, and more—is often referred to as Big Data. Making sense of this data deluge during disasters is proving an impossible challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations, which explains why they’re turning to Digital Humanitarians.
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Digital Humanitarians
- How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response
- Narrated by: Trevor White
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-06-22
- Language: English
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- By: Perry King
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport–team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's.
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Recovering Inequality
- Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster: Katrina Bookshelf
- By: Steve Kroll-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005...the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the thousands who perished. In Recovering Inequality, Steve Kroll-Smith builds a convincing case that disaster recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality are inseparable.
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With two, the truth begins.
- By Norma Miles on 01-07-19
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Recovering Inequality
- Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster: Katrina Bookshelf
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Series: The Katrina Bookshelf
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Bodegas
- Urban Children Health Matters
- By: Dr. Josh Mack
- Narrated by: Jerry Dugan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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"Bodegas: Urban Children Health Matters" delves deep into the complex interplay between these corner stores and the health outcomes of Urban children residing in urban settings. As the subsequent chapters will elucidate, while these stores offer an array of goods, the preponderance of sugary, fatty, and processed foods poses critical challenges. For many Urban families, especially those in underserved neighborhoods, bodegas are sometimes the most accessible — or even the only — food sources available.
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Bodegas
- Urban Children Health Matters
- Narrated by: Jerry Dugan
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Lost in Austin
- The Evolution of an American City
- By: Alex Hannaford
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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A long-time Austinite and journalist’s exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas—charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges of gentrification—ultimately questioning what this city’s transformation signals for American urban identity.
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Lost in Austin
- The Evolution of an American City
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down
- By: Howard Mansfield
- Narrated by: Howard Mansfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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In The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down, Howard Mansfield returns with thoughtful linked narratives examining a crucial and overlooked element of American identity: property.
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The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down
- Narrated by: Howard Mansfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Sekrety Szczecina
- By: Roman Czejarek
- Narrated by: Marcin Dudziak
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Żadne inne duże polskie miasto nie ma tylu tajemniczych i niezwykłych historii co Szczecin. Dlaczego? Bo nigdzie indziej losy nie potoczyły się w tak skomplikowany sposób. W ciągu wieków miastem władali na przemian Niemcy, Polacy, Francuzi i Szwedzi. W czasie II wojny światowej największe zniszczenia spowodowali w nim nie Rosjanie, lecz... Anglicy. Wiele razy w oficjalnej historii Szczecina próbowano przemilczać niewygodne fakty lub wymyślać nieprawdziwe propagandowe hasła. Tymczasem na przełomie XIX i XX wieku było to jedno z najważniejszych miast Europy.
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Sekrety Szczecina
- Narrated by: Marcin Dudziak
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: polish
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Crown Heights
- By: Colin Warner, Carl King, Holly Lorincz
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Childhood friends from Trinidad, Colin Warner and Carl King grew into men on opposite sides of prison bars after Colin was arrested for murder in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With no evidence against him, Colin was wrongfully convicted and wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades. But time and walls could not break the friends' bond. Carl's extraordinary resolve, sacrifice, and courage were Colin's last rays of hope in a harrowing struggle for freedom and justice.
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Brilliant
- By Mark B. on 11-03-23
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Crown Heights
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
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Breakthrough Community Change
- A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
- By: Paul Born
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intractable community problems.
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Breakthrough Community Change
- A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-02-23
- Language: English
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- By: Joseph Margulies
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success?
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Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out)
- Can We Restore Neighborhoods Without Destroying Them?
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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