City Planning History
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Supertall
- 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
- Unabridged
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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. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.
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Incredible book!
- By Jiri on 27-02-24
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Supertall
- How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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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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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."
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Cities are complex organic organisms
- By Anonymous User on 09-02-24
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
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Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning"....
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- By: Mick Cornett, Jayson White
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America...and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country", Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places - and it is not alone.
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The Next American City
- The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
- Narrated by: Tom Weitzel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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interesting
- 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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Krieger's compelling narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by....
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Draining New Orleans
- The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
- By: Richard Campanella
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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In Draining New Orleans, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to "reclaim" the city's swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion.
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Draining New Orleans
- The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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In Draining New Orleans, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City....
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