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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Germaine Halegoua
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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A Walking Life
- Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
- By: Antonia Malchik
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The loss of walking as an individual and a community act has the potential to destroy our deepest spiritual connections, our democratic society, our neighborhoods, and our freedom. But we can change the course of our mobility. And we need to. Delving into a wealth of science, history, and anecdote, from our deepest origins as hominins to our first steps as babies, to universal design and social infrastructure, A Walking Life shows exactly how walking is essential, and how deeply reliant our brains and bodies are on this simple pedestrian act - and how we can reclaim it.
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A Walking Life
- Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-05-19
- Language: English
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A History of Future Cities
- By: Daniel Brook
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
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A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?
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A History of Future Cities
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 29-05-13
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- By: Rachel Sherman
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-09-17
- Language: English
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The New City
- How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
- By: Dickson Despommier
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.
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Good identification of the problems, bad solutions
- By Anonymous User on 26-09-24
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The New City
- How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself.
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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Make, Think, Imagine
- Engineering the Future of Civilisation
- By: John Browne
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are the decisions about our health, security and finances made by computer programs inexplicable and biased? Will these algorithms become so complex that we can no longer control them? Are robots going to take our jobs? John Browne presents an impassioned defence of progress and innovation and argues that we need not and must not put the brakes on technological advance.
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Well engineered!
- By SteveN on 11-12-21
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Make, Think, Imagine
- Engineering the Future of Civilisation
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 15-08-19
- Language: English
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Ciudad Feliz [Happy City]
- Transformar la vida a través del diseño urbano [Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design]
- By: Charles Montgomery
- Narrated by: Martin Untrojb
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
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Tras décadas de expansión descontrolada, más personas que nunca están volviendo a la ciudad. La vida urbana densa se ha prescrito como la panacea para la crisis medioambiental y de recursos de nuestro tiempo. ¿Pero es mejor o peor para nuestra felicidad? ¿Son el metro, las aceras y las torres de apartamentos una mejora respecto a la dependencia del coche en los suburbios?
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Ciudad Feliz [Happy City]
- Transformar la vida a través del diseño urbano [Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design]
- Narrated by: Martin Untrojb
- Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-08-23
- Language: Spanish
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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Peter Hendee Brown
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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How Real Estate Developers Think considers developers from three different perspectives. Brown profiles the careers of individual developers to illustrate the character of the entrepreneur; considers the roles played by innovation, design, marketing, and sales in the production of real estate; and examines the risks and rewards that motivate developers as people.
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Don’t judge by the title
- By Leandro Carvalho on 13-02-20
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How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 28-12-15
- Language: English
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the 20th century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents.
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- By: Emily Anthes
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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In this wide-ranging, character-driven audiobook, science-journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the painkilling power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks.
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Interesting book, horrible narration
- By Henry on 15-03-21
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The Great Indoors
- The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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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
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As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs - an astonishing 6,000 miles.
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The New York Nobody Knows
- Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
- Narrated by: Mark Cabus
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-10-13
- Language: English
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost
- Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos
- By: Angela Garcia
- Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centers for alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness, spread across Mexico City’s tenements and reaching into the United States.
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost
- Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos
- Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Cities in the Sky
- The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
- By: Jason M. Barr
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep getting higher and higher. What is driving this global building spree of epic proportions? In Cities in the Sky, author Jason Barr explains all: why they appeal to cities and nations, how they get financed, why they succeed economically, and how they change a city’s skyline and enable the world’s greatest metropolises to thrive in the 21st century.
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Cities in the Sky
- The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- By: Jacob A. Riis
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to How the Other Half Lives and learn about the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure.
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How the Other Half Lives
- Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-09-22
- Language: English
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The Infinite City
- Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
- By: Niall Kishtainy
- Narrated by: Robin Liang
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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London is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time. In his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors and shows how London’s spirit has been one of visionary imagination amid relentless change and innovation.
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Interesting aspect of London history
- By Hugh Jampton on 10-12-23
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The Infinite City
- Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London
- Narrated by: Robin Liang
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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The New Localism
- How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
- By: Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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In their new audiobook, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.
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The New Localism
- How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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You Are Here
- A Brief Guide to the World
- By: Nicholas Crane
- Narrated by: Nicholas Crane
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our actions and the state of the planet that we all share. We need a new myth, a new narrative that restores the connections between humanity and the Earth. We are being confronted by a daily barrage of geographical stories on climate change, geopolitics, population growth, migration, dwindling resources, polluted oceans and natural hazards. These are planetary concerns affecting all people and all places.
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Geography has never been more important or fascinating
- By Elizabeth on 18-04-21
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You Are Here
- A Brief Guide to the World
- Narrated by: Nicholas Crane
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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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
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Hasidic Williamsburg is famous as one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy communities. Less known is how the community survived in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods during an era of steep decline, only to later oppose and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 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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A Fortress in Brooklyn
- Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-05-21
- Language: English
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Those Who Wander
- America's Lost Street Kids
- By: Vivian Ho
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these young people - victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth.
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Those Who Wander
- America's Lost Street Kids
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-09-19
- Language: English
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