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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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    Above Manhattan's bustle, a reshaped public space

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    In the mid-20th century, it was a railroad; now it’s a public park. Built in the 1930s, 30 feet above the streets of Manhattan, the High Line was crucial for transporting cargo. But with the decline of rail transportation, it closed in 1980 and was abandoned. Almost three decades later, it opened again -- this time, as a shared space for greenery, art and leisure. Jeffrey Brown reports. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mini-Forest Revolution

    Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

    by Hannah Lewis ...
    Narrated by Tia Rider ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    For listeners who enjoyed Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Life of Trees comes the first-ever book about a movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming empty lots, backyards, and degraded land into mini-forests. Author Hannah Lewis is the forest maker turning asphalt into ecosystems to save the planet, and she wants everyone to know they can do it too. In Mini ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Brooklyn

    The Once and Future City

    by Thomas J. Campanella ...
    Narrated by William Hope ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 21 min

    This audiobook narrated by William Hope provides an unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 4 min

    ‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert MacfarlaneWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more.This book has been a long time coming. Since 1086, in fact. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    by Mark Binelli ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Infrastructure Works

    Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

    by Deb Chachra ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around usInfrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Building the Cycling City

    The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

    by Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett ...
    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, twenty-first-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Waterfront Manhattan

    From Henry Hudson to the High Line

    by Kurt C. Schlichting ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Nest City

    How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities Serve Citizens

    by Beth Sanders ...
    Narrated by Beth Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Our linear ways of thinking about, organizing and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities as complex and messy systems. There are no simple solutions to the challenges we face: many citizens don't feel they belong; we don't agree on how to best move around; many don't have jobs or homes they can afford; we make running businesses hard work; we are facing challenges with the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Speculative Futures

    Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Citie s We Need

    by Johanna Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Henriette Zoutomou ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    That's not how I remember it

    glimpses of the Packington Estate from those who were there

    by Pack*Art Panel (eds) ...
    Narrated by Toni Lee, Yasemin Der, Charise Johnson, Donna Roe, John Okolo, Kim Stanton, Sheyma Buali, Susana Smith, Theresa Okolo ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    Interwoven memories of wallpaper, sugar sandwiches, violence and unwritten rules of community offer an insider history of the Pack, a now demolished London council estate. ... Read more

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    Nyhavn 1673-1998

    by Allan Mylius Thomsen ...
    Narrated by Mikkel Schou ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 41 min

    "Når vi i dag går en tur på solsiden af Nyhavn, kan det være svært at forestille sig, at den maleriske gamle havn er resultatet af en storslået byudvidelse. Historierne og anekdoterne klæber sig til den gamle havn. Årene som travl erhvervshavn med besøg fra de syv verdenshave. De mange ydmyge sømandsværtshuse, de gavmilde piger og de uheldige turister, der blev rullet, hvis de var lidt for ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    No Place To Go

    How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs

    by Lezlie Lowe ...
    Narrated by Amanda Wood ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we're allowed to "go" in public.Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problem- and politics-free. No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place To Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Why Architecture Matters

    by Paul Goldberger ...
    Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. 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 ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    An Unpromised Land

    by Leon Gettler ...
    Narrated by Leon Gettler ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    In the 1930s, in the wake of the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, a wave of vicious anti-Semitism swept Europe, as Jews became outcasts in their own lands. As they clamoured to escape persecution, the world turned a blind eye to their plight. One man, Isaac Steinberg, had a vision of leading his people from the holocaust to a new paradise on the other side of the world. His enthusiastic and resolute ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Københavnerglimt. En kalejdoskopisk odyssé gennem Københavns historie

    by Allan Mylius Thomsen ...
    Narrated by Torben Sekov ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    En gåtur gennem København kan foregå på mange måder. Man kan ile af sted uden øje for sine omgivelser. Eller man kan slentre gennem gaderne, kigge lidt på vinduer og mennesker, dumpe ned på en café, lade øjnene vandre fra bygninger til folk til optrin. Helt tilfældigt, herligt afslappende. Og endelig kan man gå en tur med Allan Mylius Thomsen. Læser man bare en af de mange artikler, der i flere år ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

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    Brave New Home

    Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing

    by Diana Lind ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Life After Carbon

    The Next Global Transformation of Cities

    by Peter Plastrik, John Cleveland ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    The future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived its usefulness. It cannot solve the problems it helped to create—especially global warming. Fortunately, a new model for urban development is emerging in cities to aggressively tackle the realities of climate change. It transforms the way cities design and use ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    American Urbanist

    How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

    by Richard K. Rein ...
    Narrated by Tom Lennon ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 42 min

    American Urbanist shares the life and wisdom of a man whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today-from New York's bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. William "Holly" Whyte's experiences as a WWII intelligence officer and leader of the genre-defining reporters at Fortune Magazine in the 1950s shaped his razor-sharp assessments of how the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Supertall

    How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

    by Stefan Al ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al-himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    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

  • Audiobook

    Divide

    The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

    by Anna Jones ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers - who manage two thirds of the UK's landscape - working together with conservation groups can ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial