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    • By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night....

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    • An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
    • By: Dr Ben Robinson
    • Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist....

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    • By: James C. Scott
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields....

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    • True Fictions from an Unreal City
    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit....

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    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

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    • By: Stephen Smith
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital....

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    • By: Iain Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • Life and Death in the World City
    • By: Ben Judah
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital, for better and for worse....

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    • Memories of a City
    • By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

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    • A Field Guide
    • By: Leslie Kern
    • Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Ethics for the City
    • By: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai....

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    • By: Oliver James
    • Narrated by: Oliver James
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions....

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    • A Guidebook for the Urban Age
    • By: P. D. Smith
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • By: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

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    • By: David Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • David Wilkerson stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power....

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