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Sidewalking
- Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A frustrating read
- De David Ross en 09-09-05
De: Pete Hamill
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Happy City
- Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- De: Charles Montgomery
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 335
After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book-terrible narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-19
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Why Architecture Matters
- De: Paul Goldberger
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually" - with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reading too mechanical
- De Petrie en 09-01-15
De: Paul Goldberger
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Vanishing New York
- How a Great City Lost Its Soul
- De: Jeremiah Moss
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
New York City has long been a destination for rebels and rule breakers, artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part of its rich cultural exchange and unique social fabric. But today, modern gentrification is transforming the city from an exceptional, iconoclastic metropolis into a suburbanized luxury zone. Blogger and cultural commentator Jeremiah Moss leads us on a colorful guided tour of the most changed parts of town lovingly eulogizing iconic institutions as they're replaced with soulless upscale boutiques, luxury condo towers, and suburban chains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A compelling story, but the narration???
- De S. McGee en 11-30-17
De: Jeremiah Moss
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- De: Paul Bogard
- Narrado por: Paul Bogard
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little too poetic for my taste
- De Dan B en 03-18-19
De: Paul Bogard
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Commuters companion
- De Anna en 05-19-13
De: P. D. Smith
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The Geography of Genius
- A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
- De: Eric Weiner
- Narrado por: Eric Weiner
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 423
In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very, very disappointing
- De Tamara Greer en 06-08-16
De: Eric Weiner
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The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea
- Monuments, Missteps, and the Audacity of Ambition
- De: Russell Rathbun
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God's creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we've lost ourselves in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narrator
- De Tammy en 03-17-18
De: Russell Rathbun
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So Much Longing in So Little Space
- The Art of Edvard Munch
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good start
- De Barbara O en 11-08-23
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Earning the Rockies
- How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
- De: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 194
As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent book that found a great narrator!
- De BotakTree en 03-09-17
De: Robert D. Kaplan
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Maphead
- Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
- De: Ken Jennings
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Romp through Maps
- De Lynn en 01-27-12
De: Ken Jennings
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The Contemporaries
- Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
- De: Roger White
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations Spoil This Reading!
- De Jenny Jenkins en 06-17-15
De: Roger White
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You Say to Brick
- The Life of Louis Kahn
- De: Wendy Lesser
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last 15 years of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about architect needs pictures
- De Kristin Olson-garewal en 10-15-17
De: Wendy Lesser
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China Road
- A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
- De: Rob Gifford
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 329
National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's 20 years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes listeners on this journey, he also takes them through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding Book on China
- De Sarda en 08-13-07
De: Rob Gifford
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The Art of Travel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
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Americans Against the City
- Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
- De: Steven Conn
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In this provocative and sweeping audiobook, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse across the 20th century, examining how the ideas born of it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- De M. M. Conroy en 09-19-20
De: Steven Conn
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sidewalking
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- Leah
- 03-06-17
Good background on LA
I read this when I first moved to LA to get some insight into the history and landmarks of the city - and it definitely delivered. I found the author's writing style to be a bit rambling for my taste.
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- Anastas Belev
- 11-21-17
Hard-to-follow rambling
As a new Angeleno, I really wanted and tried to like this book. I couldn’t. It’s awful, there’s absolutely no story line, no logical succession, it’s endless rambling, impossible to follow or hold your attention for more than two minutes. While many good points were made, the senseless babble around them made this boon unlistenable.
Go read an article about LA or public transportation, it will surely be more coherent and informative.
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