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Grenfell Hope
- Stories from the community
- By: Gaby Doherty
- Narrated by: Gaby Doherty
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Gaby and her husband Sean and their four children live in a flat across from Grenfell Tower, and Sean (a Church of England minister) was the first clergy person on the scene. This book stems from personal experience of the impact of the fire. It features the testimony of and commentary on the community that experienced it, and the amazing stories of hope that followed in its wake.
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Grenfell Hope
- Stories from the community
- Narrated by: Gaby Doherty
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-04-23
- Language: English
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- By: Suleiman Osman
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation.
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The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
- Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-01-14
- Language: English
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All Souls
- A Family Story from Southie
- By: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Narrated by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working-class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child. But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world".
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From Boston to Belfast
- By Kirston Scott on 21-08-22
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All Souls
- A Family Story from Southie
- Narrated by: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- By: Jenny Schuetz
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.
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Fixer-Upper
- How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-05-22
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- By: Jessica Trounstine
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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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. Starting in the early 20th century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them.
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Segregation by Design
- Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-02-21
- Language: English
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- By: Akash Kapur
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East-Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world - Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright.
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A fascinating glimpse inside an innovative community
- By Susan H on 12-06-22
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Better to Have Gone
- Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 20-07-21
- Language: English
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Souvenir
- By: Michael Bracewell
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early '80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another.
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Souvenir
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- By: Thomas J. Sugrue
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s.
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
- Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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Between Riverside and Crazy
- By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
- Narrated by: Elisa Bocanegra, John Cothran, Seamus Dever, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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After his wife’s death, retired cop Walter "Pops" Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he’s built there?
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Between Riverside and Crazy
- Narrated by: Elisa Bocanegra, John Cothran, Seamus Dever, James Martinez, Ana Ortiz, Larry Powell, Emily Swallow
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- By: Diana Lind
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Brave New Home
- Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Katrina
- A History, 1915-2015
- By: Andy Horowitz
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the 20th century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry.
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Katrina
- A History, 1915-2015
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
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Radical Technologies
- The Design of Everyday Life
- By: Adam Greenfield
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Everywhere we turn, a new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future. We're told that innovations - from augmented - reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars - will make life easier, more convenient, and more productive.
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Radical Technologies
- The Design of Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
- By: Leslie Kern
- Narrated by: Parmida Vand
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
- Narrated by: Parmida Vand
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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One Kensington
- Tales From the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain
- By: Emma Dent Coad
- Narrated by: Emma Dent Coad
- Length: 7 hrs
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Kensington and Chelsea—one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth—is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food to feed themselves. Desperate overcrowding is found in the shadow of ultraluxury property developments. A 20-minute bus ride across the borough can encompass a 30-year difference in life expectancy. Emma Dent Coad, a councillor in Kensington and Chelsea since 2006, and has spent her life fighting for those left behind in the Royal Borough.
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One Kensington
- Tales From the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain
- Narrated by: Emma Dent Coad
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 22-09-22
- Language: English
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
- Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- By: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage.
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
- Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Dirty White Boy
- Tales of Soho
- By: Clayton Littlewood
- Narrated by: Bruce Donnelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Dirty White Boy is a vivid mosaic of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future. With an unforgettable cast of characters ranging from Chico the camp queen to Pam the Fag Lady (with guest spots by stars like Kathy Griffin and Graham Norton), these compulsively listenable true tales offer a wry panorama of Soho's rich and often raucous subcultures.
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The human side of Soho
- By Patrick on 26-06-13
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Dirty White Boy
- Tales of Soho
- Narrated by: Bruce Donnelly
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-12-12
- Language: English
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- By: Scott Huler
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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In our daily lives, we're surrounded by wires, pipes, utility poles, cell phone towers, and myriad other infrastructure that facilitates almost everything we do. Even though these systems are essential, when was the last time you gave them much thought? In On the Grid, Scott Huler sets out to understand all of the systems that shape our society - from transportation, water, and garbage to the Internet coming through our cable lines.
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On the Grid
- A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-07-14
- Language: English
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Crown Heights
- By: Colin Warner, Carl King, Holly Lorincz
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Childhood friends from Trinidad, Colin Warner and Carl King grew into men on opposite sides of prison bars after Colin was arrested for murder in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With no evidence against him, Colin was wrongfully convicted and wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades. But time and walls could not break the friends' bond. Carl's extraordinary resolve, sacrifice, and courage were Colin's last rays of hope in a harrowing struggle for freedom and justice.
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Brilliant
- By Mark B. on 11-03-23
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Crown Heights
- Narrated by: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
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Closing Time
- The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
- By: Lacey Fosburgh
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon. In this groundbreaking true crime tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the New York Times reporter first assigned to the story, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal interactions leading up to the brutal stabbing and the gritty details of its aftermath.
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Closing Time
- The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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Need an engineering background to enjoy
- By Amazon Customer on 17-10-20
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 14-07-16
- Language: English
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