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City Planning & Urban Development Audiobooks

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    The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    by Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt ...
    Narrated by Roman Mars ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 49 min

    An entertaining guide to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, featuring new and exclusive material from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast.Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?Or stopped to ponder who gets to name the streets we walk along?Or what the story is behind those dancing inflatable figures in car ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    GO BIG

    How To Fix Our World

    by Ed Miliband ...
    Narrated by Ed Miliband ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.** INCLUDES BONUS CHAPTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF LLOYD ***A Guardian, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book to Look Out for in 2021*'GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind______**Good news: the solutions to our problems alread... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Feminist City

    A Field Guide

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place.” From the geography of ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Extreme Cities

    The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

    by Ashley Dawson ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Eyes on the Street

    The Life of Jane Jacobs

    by Robert Kanigel ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 19 min

    The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Street Smart

    The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

    by Samuel I. Schwartz ...
    Narrated by Don Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    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 ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    The classic, brilliant, bestselling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Building the Future

    Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

    by Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds ...
    Narrated by Anna Crowe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 41 min

    Building the FutureMachiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Swamp Peddlers

    How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

    by Jason Vuic ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ciudades de 15 minutos. Así serán las urbes del futuro

    by Juanjo Ramos ...
    Narrated by Juanjo Ramos ...

    Unabridged

    31 min

    “Ciudades de 15 minutos" (o de 20 para los expertos menos ambiciosos): este es un poderoso concepto urbanístico que se ha popularizado en los últimos años y que se basa en la idea de diseñar ciudades en las que los servicios y actividades esenciales (trabajo, educación, compras, salud, etc.) estén ubicados a no más de 15 minutos a pie o en bicicleta de los hogares de los residentes.Grandes ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In the Business of Change

    How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual

    by Elisa Birnbaum ...
    Narrated by Elisa Birnbaum ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    Meet the social entrepreneurs who are using business to disrupt the status quo and rebuild their communitiesOur communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the "same old" simply won't do.In the Business of Change is a practical and inspirational guide that ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Town Planning in Practice

    by Raymond Unwin ...
    Narrated by Mark Tester ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    Raymond Unwin was a prominent architect and engineer from the late 19th and early 20th century. He helped popularize the Arts and Crafts movement and was one of the first English voices in the town planning movement. Town Planning in Practice was published in 1909 and still resonates with planners and urban designers today. It reflects on discussions that are still happening to this day including ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

    How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

    by Davarian L Baldwin ...
    Narrated by Wayne Carr ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Resilience Imperative

    Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy

    by Michael Lewis, Pat Conaty ...
    Narrated by Eric Pollins ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 43 min

    We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady ... Read more

    $56.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How the Other Half Lives - Studies Among the Tenements of New York

    by Jacob A. Riis ...
    Narrated by Chris Mattews ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" explained not only the living conditions in New York slums, but also in the sweatshops in some tenements which paid workers only a few cents a day. The book explains the plight of ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Gumbo Coalition

    10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and Achieve

    by Marc Morial ...
    Narrated by James Shippey ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Learn key lessons on diversity and inclusion from front-line expert Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans.Marc Morial knew his calling from a young age was to be a leader in the fight for meaningful change. Growing up in the segregated South and helping his father realize an incredible victory as the first African American mayor of New Orleans, Morial was ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ciudad feminista (Feminist City)

    La lucha por el espacio en un mundo diseñado por hombres (Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World)

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Narrated by Sara Juárez ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Ciudad feminista es un experimento continuo para vivir de manera diferente, vivir mejor y vivir de manera más justa en un mundo urbano. Vivimos en la ciudad de los hombres. Nuestros espacios públicos no están diseñados para cuerpos femeninos. Hay poca consideración por las mujeres como madres, trabajadoras o cuidadoras. Las calles urbanas suelen ser un lugar de amenazas más que de comunidad. La ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nachruf auf mich selbst. - Die Kultur des Aufhörens (Ungekürzt)

    by Harald Welzer ...
    Narrated by Harald Welzer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    Bestseller-Autor Harald Welzer stellt fest, dass unsere Kultur kein Konzept vom Aufhören hat. Deshalb baut sie Autobahnen und Flughäfen für Zukünfte, in denen es keine Autos und Flughäfen mehr geben wird. Und sie versucht, unsere Zukunftsprobleme durch Optimierung zu lösen, obwohl ein optimiertes Falsches immer noch falsch ist. Damit verbaut sie viele Möglichkeiten, das Leben durch Weglassen und ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Istanbul

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006, was born in Istanbul, in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or hüzün- that all ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Arbitrary Lines

    How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

    by M. Nolan Gray ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news is that reform is in the air, with states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and Hartford, the key pillars of zoning are under fire, ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Urban Food Revolution

    Changing the Way We Feed Cities

    by Peter Ladner ...
    Narrated by Cherlandra Estrada ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion's share of the food on our supermarket shelves, we are incredibly vulnerable to supply chain disruption.The Urban Food Revolution provides a recipe for community food ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Smart Cities

    by Germaine Halegoua ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...
    series MIT Press Essential Knowledge

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Survival of the City

    Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

    by Edward Glaeser, David Cutler ...
    Narrated by Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our citiesFrom New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and well being. Yet most of us live or work in cities. They are a vital part of both local and global ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Next American City

    The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros

    by Mick Cornett, Jayson White ...
    Narrated by Tom Weitzel ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years.Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial