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What Is A City, Why Certain People Prefer To Reside In A City, And The Benefits Of Residing In A City

by Dr. Harrison Sachs ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Mason G ...

Unabridged

26 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This essay sheds light on what is a city, explicates why certain people prefer to reside in a city, and delineates the benefits of residing in a city. The criteria for a geographical region to become a city can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. A city is deemed to be a “densely populated area” that is part of an urban geographical region. An ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This essay sheds light on what is a city, explicates why certain people prefer to reside in a city, and delineates the benefits of residing in a city. The criteria for a geographical region to become a city can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. A city is deemed to be a “densely populated area” that is part of an urban geographical region. An
... Read more
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Portrait to Landscape

A Landscape Strategy to Reframe Our Future

by Alexandra Steed ...

Narrated by Maria Johnson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

Portrait to Landscape: A Landscape Strategy to Reframe Our Future is a ground-breaking book that calls for a transformative shift in our relationship with the natural world. Written by a renowned landscape architect, this book offers a new perspective on our place in the world and a compelling vision for a regenerative future.In an era plagued by environmental disasters and global challenges, the ... Read more

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Portrait to Landscape: A Landscape Strategy to Reframe Our Future is a ground-breaking book that calls for a transformative shift in our relationship with the natural world. Written by a renowned landscape architect, this book offers a new perspective on our place in the world and a compelling vision for a regenerative future.In an era plagued by environmental disasters and global challenges, the
... Read more
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How to Build a City

Journeys into the Urban Future

by Gabriella Bennett ...

Narrated by Gabriella Bennett ...

Unabridged

10 hours

'A thoughtful, open-hearted, deeply reported book about what we need to live. In How To Build A City, Bennett roams the world in search of answers to some of the most profound questions of our present and our future' - CAL FLYNA moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling loneliness in Tokyo. Helsinki's sprawling underground metropolis. And Ukraine's bomb-resistant bedrooms. These ... Read more

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'A thoughtful, open-hearted, deeply reported book about what we need to live. In How To Build A City, Bennett roams the world in search of answers to some of the most profound questions of our present and our future' - CAL FLYNA moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling loneliness in Tokyo. Helsinki's sprawling underground metropolis. And Ukraine's bomb-resistant bedrooms. These
... Read more
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Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need

by Jonathan Glancey ...

Narrated by Alan Turton ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis.It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the increasingly common sight of mass-produced and near identical housing across the land.This book argues that ... Read more

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Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis.It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the increasingly common sight of mass-produced and near identical housing across the land.This book argues that
... Read more
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Urbanidade da Exclusão

a produção urbanística do capital

by Jóseley Gildo ...

Narrated by Voz Artificial ...

Abridged

3 hours 47 min

O urbanismo e a sustentabilidade são conceitos totalmente abstratos quando desenvolvidos pela forma social de produção capitalista, a solução para as problemáticas da urbanística se converte em um selo verde, o qual é utilizado apenas para ocultar a real ameaça que mantém o ser humano ainda em sua "pré-história". O capitalismo, enquanto forma social de produção hegemônica, torna-se dominante na ... Read more

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O urbanismo e a sustentabilidade são conceitos totalmente abstratos quando desenvolvidos pela forma social de produção capitalista, a solução para as problemáticas da urbanística se converte em um selo verde, o qual é utilizado apenas para ocultar a real ameaça que mantém o ser humano ainda em sua "pré-história". O capitalismo, enquanto forma social de produção hegemônica, torna-se dominante na
... Read more
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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

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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
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Humanise

A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

by Thomas Heatherwick ...

Narrated by Thomas Heatherwick ...

Unabridged

5 hours 28 min

Brought to you by Penguin.In this manifesto for change, one of the world's pre-eminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it.Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.In this manifesto for change, one of the world's pre-eminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it.Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and
... Read more
Audiobook

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

£19.99

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
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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

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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
Audiobook

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

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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
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Una historia personal de la arquitectura europea

Del templo griego a la Bauhaus

by David Ferrer ...

Narrated by Mario (Voz de IA) ...

Series series Condición Humana
Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

Un recorrido fascinante y extraordinariamente ilustrado que explica como nunca antes las claves de la arquitectura.El arquitecto David Ferrer nos acompaña en estas páginas a lo largo de un itinerario lleno de etapas fascinantes: la civilización griega con los primeros edificios de nuestra cultura, las portentosas construcciones romanas, las catedrales góticas, el clasicismo renacentista, el ... Read more

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Un recorrido fascinante y extraordinariamente ilustrado que explica como nunca antes las claves de la arquitectura.El arquitecto David Ferrer nos acompaña en estas páginas a lo largo de un itinerario lleno de etapas fascinantes: la civilización griega con los primeros edificios de nuestra cultura, las portentosas construcciones romanas, las catedrales góticas, el clasicismo renacentista, el
... Read more
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald Shoup ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

Unabridged

23 hours 47 min

In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why ... Read more

£29.30

In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why
... Read more
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Upward Bound, Soaring to New Heights in the Vertical Metropolis

Challenges of High-Density Living, Megacities and Public Health, The Social Impact of Vertical Cities

by B.Sc. Colin Bruno ...

Narrated by Kevin Wagner ...

Unabridged

4 hours 31 min

Upward Bound, Soaring to New Heights in the Vertical Metropolis: Challenges of High-Density Living, Megacities and Public Health, The Social Impact of Vertical CitiesAre you ready to delve into the intricacies of urbanization and confront the challenges inherent in the rise of megacities? The dynamics of high-density living, exploring its impact on public health, social structures, and the ... Read more

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Upward Bound, Soaring to New Heights in the Vertical Metropolis: Challenges of High-Density Living, Megacities and Public Health, The Social Impact of Vertical CitiesAre you ready to delve into the intricacies of urbanization and confront the challenges inherent in the rise of megacities? The dynamics of high-density living, exploring its impact on public health, social structures, and the
... Read more
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Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth

by Gavin T. Railton ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Unabridged

4 hours 17 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover how integrated transit planning can transform growing cities into vibrant, connected communities that thrive economically, socially, and environmentally. Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth reveals proven strategies for aligning public transport networks with urban planning goals, enabling you to design systems that reduce congestion ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover how integrated transit planning can transform growing cities into vibrant, connected communities that thrive economically, socially, and environmentally. Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth reveals proven strategies for aligning public transport networks with urban planning goals, enabling you to design systems that reduce congestion
... Read more
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Nahwärme neu gedacht

Wie du mit regenerativen Energien unabhängig heizt und Kosten langfristig senkst

by Andreas Bauernfeind ...

Narrated by Helmut Stieglbauer (AI) ...

Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

Nahwärme neu gedacht: Wie du mit regenerativen Energien unabhängig heizt und Kosten langfristig senkst.Bist du auf der Suche nach einer echten Alternative zur Ölheizung und möchtest endlich unabhängig heizen ohne Gas? Die Energiepreise steigen kontinuierlich, und die Zukunft der Wärmeversorgung erfordert ein Umdenken. Wenn du Heizkosten sparen im Eigenheim und gleichzeitig klimafreundlich heizen ... Read more

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Nahwärme neu gedacht: Wie du mit regenerativen Energien unabhängig heizt und Kosten langfristig senkst.Bist du auf der Suche nach einer echten Alternative zur Ölheizung und möchtest endlich unabhängig heizen ohne Gas? Die Energiepreise steigen kontinuierlich, und die Zukunft der Wärmeversorgung erfordert ein Umdenken. Wenn du Heizkosten sparen im Eigenheim und gleichzeitig klimafreundlich heizen
... Read more
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Radical Technologies

The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.We're told ... Read more

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Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services, and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.We're told
... Read more
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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

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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
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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

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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
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The New Localism

How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...

Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of ... Read more

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In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of
... Read more
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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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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.
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Imperial San Francisco

Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

by Gray Brechin ...

Narrated by Gray Brechin ...

Series Audiobook 3 - California Studies in Critical Human Geography
Unabridged

13 hours 41 min

Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an ... Read more

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Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an
... Read more
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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

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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
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A Natural History of Empty Lots

Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

by Christopher Brown ...

Narrated by Christopher Brown ...

Unabridged

9 hours

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author).During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris ... Read more

£16.99

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author).During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris
... Read more
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Love Letter to Suburbia, A

How to Restore the American Village

by Diane Alisa ...

Narrated by Diane Alisa ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

What happened to the American Dream? In A Love Letter to Suburbia, Diane Alisa takes readers on a compelling journey through the rise of suburbia and its consequences on American life. With heartfelt reflections and practical insights, Diane confronts the disillusionment many feel living in suburban sprawl. She explores how car dependency, corporate control, and disintegrating community values ... Read more

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What happened to the American Dream? In A Love Letter to Suburbia, Diane Alisa takes readers on a compelling journey through the rise of suburbia and its consequences on American life. With heartfelt reflections and practical insights, Diane confronts the disillusionment many feel living in suburban sprawl. She explores how car dependency, corporate control, and disintegrating community values
... Read more

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