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    • How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
    • De: M. Nolan Gray
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 7 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 calificaciones
    • The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling....

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    • Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
    • De: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
    • Narrado por: Nan McNamara
    • Duración: 9 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-12-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 calificaciones
    • For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies.

    Precio regular: $20.25 o 1 crédito

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    • Studies in Jungian Psychology
    • De: Marion Woodman
    • Narrado por: Rebecca Sands
    • Duración: 8 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • "This book is about taking the head off an evil witch." With these words, Marion Woodman begins her spiral journey, a powerful and authoritative look at the psychology and attitudes of modern woman....

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    • How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
    • De: Sybil Derrible
    • Narrado por: Derek Dysart
    • Duración: 8 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 calificación
    • World-renowned urban engineering expert Sybil Derrible reveals the behind-the-scenes machinations of the foundational systems that make our societies function.

    Precio regular: $17.19 o 1 crédito

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    • How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
    • De: Antero Pietila
    • Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Duración: 9 h y 58 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-11-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped cities....

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    • Conversations on 'Life, God, and Other Small Topics'
    • De: Eric Metaxas (Editor)
    • Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
    • Duración: 14 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-13-11
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 calificaciones
    • Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times best seller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas’ latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding us all today....

    Precio regular: $21.46 o 1 crédito

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    • Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
    • De: Harry S. Jaffe, Tom Sherwood
    • Narrado por: Norman Dietz
    • Duración: 18 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-03-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 calificaciones
    • The "city behind the monuments" remains flawed and polarized, but its revival is turning it into a distinct world capital - almost a dream city....

    Precio regular: $29.95 o 1 crédito

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    • Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
    • De: Elijah Anderson
    • Narrado por: Vince Bailey
    • Duración: 15 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-13-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • Inner-city Black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street....

    Precio regular: $29.95 o 1 crédito

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    • The Evolution of an American City
    • De: Alex Hannaford
    • Narrado por: James Meunier
    • Duración: 8 h y 6 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-01-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • 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.

    Precio regular: $25.19 o 1 crédito

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    • An American City In Black And White
    • De: William Sturkey
    • Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Duración: 13 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-25-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 calificaciones
    • If you really want to understand Jim Crow - what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it - you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown....

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    • The Politics of Race in an American City
    • De: Jim Schutze, John Wiley Price
    • Narrado por: Mike Rhyner, John Wiley Price
    • Duración: 7 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-24-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 calificaciones
    • The long-suppressed treatise on Dallas’ institutional and structural racism, from slavery through desegregation, with a new foreword by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price....

    Precio regular: $23.40 o 1 crédito

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    • Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
    • De: Louisa Lim
    • Narrado por: Louisa Lim
    • Duración: 10 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-19-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 calificaciones
    • The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold....

    Precio regular: $18.00 o 1 crédito

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    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • De: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrado por: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Duración: 11 h y 11 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-19-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 732 calificaciones
    • Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water - and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash....

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    • Memories of a City
    • De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
    • Narrado por: John Lee
    • Duración: 9 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-15-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

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    • A Tale of Three Cities
    • De: Bettany Hughes
    • Narrado por: Bettany Hughes
    • Duración: 24 h y 35 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-17-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 calificaciones
    • Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact....

    Precio regular: $21.78 o 1 crédito

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    • Fugitive Life in an American City
    • De: Alice Goffman
    • Narrado por: Robin Miles
    • Duración: 11 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-21-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 calificaciones
    • A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities....

    Precio regular: $24.95 o 1 crédito

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    • Reflections of an Old Scrivener
    • De: Gay Talese
    • Narrado por: Mike Ortego
    • Duración: 8 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-19-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 calificaciones
    • In the concluding act of this "incomparable" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces listeners to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new tale of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Manhattan brownstone—and himself—rather than relinquish his claim to the American dream.

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    • Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
    • De: Lauren Elkin
    • Narrado por: Abby Craden
    • Duración: 9 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-10-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • In her wonderfully gender-bending book, the flaneuse is a "determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk"....

    Precio regular: $17.62 o 1 crédito

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    • Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
    • De: Anna Clark
    • Narrado por: Xe Sands
    • Duración: 7 h y 5 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-10-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 calificaciones
    • In Anna Clark's full account of this American tragedy, The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city....

    Precio regular: $14.99 o 1 crédito

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