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    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
    • By: Gene Weingarten
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human....

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    • True Fictions from an Unreal City
    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit....

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    • By: Jean Fullerton
    • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war....

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    • Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history....

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    • An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
    • By: Dr Ben Robinson
    • Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist....

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    • Memories of a City
    • By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
    • By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • This inspirational New York Times best seller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness....

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    • From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made....

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    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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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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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • By: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder
    • By: Lacey Fosburgh
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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    • St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
    • By: Leo Hollis
    • Narrated by: John Hopkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement....

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    • The Evolution of an American City
    • By: Alex Hannaford
    • Narrated by: James Meunier
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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.

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