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    • A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
    • By: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
    • Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.

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    • Ethics for the City
    • By: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai....

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    • The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
    • By: Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people. This audiobook examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing Dutch lessons....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Germaine Halegoua
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
    • By: Mitchell Duneier
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present....

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    • Technology and the End of the Future
    • By: James Bridle
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime....

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    • By: Donald Shoup
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 23 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • The Life of Jane Jacobs
    • By: Robert Kanigel
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day....

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    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • By: Diana Lind
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Seth Fried
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 19-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders - one human, one AI - on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis....

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    • The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
    • By: James Howard Kunstler
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness....

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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: 09-02-21
    • 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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    • The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
    • By: Patrick Sharkey
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Beginning in the mid-1990s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime. By 2014, the United States was safer than it had been in 60 years....

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    • Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    • By: Samuel Stein
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined....

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    • Water, Design, and Environmental Futures
    • By: Brook Muller - editor
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Brook Muller offers a "hydro-logical" philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop....

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    • People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 (Urban Life, Landscape and Policy)
    • By: Dennis E. Gale
    • Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-22
    • Language: English
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    • The origins of gentrification date back to World War I - only it was sometimes known as “remodeling” then. Dennis Gale’s insightful book The Misunderstood History of Gentrification provides a recontextualization of American gentrification, planning, and policymaking....

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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: 12-04-22
    • 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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    • Departing the Consumer Culture
    • By: Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The authors invite you on a journey of departure from our consumer market culture. Discover an alternative set of beliefs that have the capacity to evoke a culture where poverty, violence, and shrinking well-being are not inevitable....

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    • The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
    • By: Mark Binelli
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future....

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