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    • Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Sexuality Studies)
    • By: Andrew Israel Ross
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Brown
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public....

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    • New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible....

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    • Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
    • By: Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,017 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
    • By: Megan Kimble
    • Narrated by: Megan Kimble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward....

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    • A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
    • By: Sudhir Venkatesh
    • Narrated by: Sudhir Venkatesh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals....

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    • A Guide to Inclusive City Planning and the Role of Public Participation
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Unveil the Power of Voice in Urban Spaces with "Urban Voices Rising" Are you passionate about shaping the future of your city? "Urban Voices Rising...

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    • Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
    • By: Anna Clark
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
    • By: Deb Chachra
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....

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    • The Police and the Public
    • By: David Churchill
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities....

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    • How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire
    • By: Kevin Deutsch
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • April 28, 2015, West Baltimore, Maryland: ground zero in America's Opiate Wars....

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    • Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises
    • By: Jodie Adams Kirshner, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Broke looks at what municipal distress means, not just on paper but in practical - and personal - terms....

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    • On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
    • By: Josephine Ensign
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history - past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not - to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society....

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    • FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York
    • By: Mason B. Williams
    • Narrated by: Ira Rosenberg
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis....

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    • By: Frank McCourt
    • Narrated by: Frank McCourt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,883 ratings
    • Now here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited audiobook about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer....

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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: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
    • By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City - a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide....

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    • Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
    • By: P. E. Moskowitz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • Taking 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, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities and how we can get it back.

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    • A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
    • By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • 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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    • Investing in Infrastructure and Public Works During Economic Expansion
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • Unlock the secrets to shaping tomorrow with Building the Future, an essential eBook that delves into the transformative power of infrastructure. ...

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