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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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Fantastic text, dull on audio
- De Meghan en 02-13-15
De: Jane Jacobs, y otros
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Crabgrass Frontier
- The Suburbanization of the United States
- De: Kenneth T. Jackson
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.
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There is so much to think about here.
- De Richard McKown en 06-25-23
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The Well-Tempered City
- What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
- De: Jonathan F. P. Rose
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, and education and health disparities, among many others.
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The best way to save the future is to look at the past
- De Kate en 10-01-22
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City
- A Guidebook for the Urban Age
- De: P. D. Smith
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers - the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
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Commuters companion
- De Anna en 05-19-13
De: P. D. Smith
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
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A stupid and dangerously short sighted view
- De Gare&Sophia en 11-13-12
De: David Owen
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- De: Peter Moskowitz
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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Unproductive criticism.
- De Aaron Rogers en 06-01-18
De: Peter Moskowitz
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Behemoth
- A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Joshua B. Freeman
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 13 h y 43 m
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We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills". Many factories that operated over the last two centuries - such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn - were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production.
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Get rid of the fake accents
- De J. R. Valery en 03-13-18
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China, Inc.
- De: Ted C. Fishman
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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China today is visible everywhere: In the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred, and why it already affects us all.
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Just read the Amazon reviews befor buying it ...
- De Dan en 08-10-05
De: Ted C. Fishman
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- De: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.
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Interesting, thought provoking, and hopeful
- De JKuster en 03-07-20
De: Samuel I. Schwartz, y otros
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- De: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrado por: Roman Mars
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.
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The 99% Invisible City
- De Louise Schraa en 01-09-21
De: Kurt Kohlstedt, y otros
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A History of Future Cities
- De: Daniel Brook
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 13 h
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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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Engaging and Memorable
- De Marcus Vorwaller en 04-15-14
De: Daniel Brook
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The Great Reset
- How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
- De: Richard Florida
- Narrado por: Eric Conger
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity.
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glorification of City Life
- De Ryan Riggs en 11-25-20
De: Richard Florida
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China's Second Continent
- How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting, French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth.
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He knows Both Africa and China
- De Malick Tchakpedeou en 12-01-16
De: Howard W. French