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San Fransicko

Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

11 hours 12 min

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the
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The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

15 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth
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Four Lost Cities

A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz ...

Narrated by Chloe Cannon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 14 min

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation ... Read more

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In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation
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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

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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
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The Bowery

The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

by Stephen Paul DeVillo ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

10 hours 20 min

It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The Bowery is New York's oldest street and Manhattan's broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented ... Read more

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It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The Bowery is New York's oldest street and Manhattan's broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented
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The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 1

by Robert A. Caro ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

22 hours 23 min

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that
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When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Narrated by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant
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Trash!

A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

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A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started
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Man in the Mirror

Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City

by Anand Giridharadas ...

Narrated by Anand Giridharadas ...

Unabridged

17 hours 40 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming
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Language City

The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

by Ross Perlin ...

Narrated by Ross Perlin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of ... Read more

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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of
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Bleeding Out

The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets

by Thomas Abt ...

Narrated by Brad Raymond ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in AmericaUrban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities.Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a ... Read more

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From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in AmericaUrban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities.Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a
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Paved Paradise

How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

**Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining."—The Los Angeles ... Read more

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**Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.”—The New Yorker“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone wrong . . . highly entertaining."—The Los Angeles
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The Spaces That Make Us

Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World

by Danish Kurani ...

Narrated by Omar Maskati ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

Create a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . .. . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner?. . . the layout of your child's classroom affects their grades and test scores?. . . the design of your hospital room influences how quickly you recover?We live in a symbiotic relationship with the spaces around us—first we make our ... Read more

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Create a better life by creating better design. Did you know that. . .. . . the arrangement of your living room could improve your relationship with your partner?. . . the layout of your child's classroom affects their grades and test scores?. . . the design of your hospital room influences how quickly you recover?We live in a symbiotic relationship with the spaces around us—first we make our
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An Other Kingdom

Departing the Consumer Culture

by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight ...

Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

Unabridged

3 hours 45 min

Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.We think the free-market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents ... Read more

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Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture.We think the free-market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents
... Read more
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Rezagados

Una nueva economía para lugares olvidados

by Paul Collier ...

Narrated by Manu Fullola ...

Unabridged

11 hours 35 min

CÓMO DEVOLVER LA PROSPERIDAD A LUGARES ABANDONADOSIncluso en los países más desarrollados del mundo podemos encontrar regiones que se han quedado atrás: desde Yorkshire del Sur, un lugar que fue fundamental durante la Revolución Industrial y que ahora es el condado más empobrecido de Inglaterra, hasta Barranquilla, antaño la puerta de salida de Colombia al Caribe y que hoy se enfrenta a serias ... Read more

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CÓMO DEVOLVER LA PROSPERIDAD A LUGARES ABANDONADOSIncluso en los países más desarrollados del mundo podemos encontrar regiones que se han quedado atrás: desde Yorkshire del Sur, un lugar que fue fundamental durante la Revolución Industrial y que ahora es el condado más empobrecido de Inglaterra, hasta Barranquilla, antaño la puerta de salida de Colombia al Caribe y que hoy se enfrenta a serias
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True Notebooks

A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

by Mark Salzman ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his ... Read more

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When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his
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Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives

by Lyzette Wanzer ...

Narrated by L. Malaika Cooper ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that perennial racist emblem? And why are women so ... Read more

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Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair continues to confound, transfix, and enrage members of White American society. Why, in 2022, is this still the case? Why have we not moved beyond that perennial racist emblem? And why are women so
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Wereldsteden van de lage landen III

De lange negentiende eeuw

by Diverse auteurs ...

Narrated by Frank Rigter ...

Unabridged

2 hours 53 min

De negentiende eeuw bracht industrialisatie, verstedelijking en sociale strijd. In dit derde deel staat de stad als centrum van groei én conflict centraal. Je hoort hoe steenkool, spoorlijnen en koloniale idealen steden zoals Gent, Rotterdam en Aalst veranderden – en welke keerzijden zich daarbij aandienden.Ook cultuur en politiek komen aan bod: van Marx in Brussel tot quarantainemaatregelen in de ... Read more

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De negentiende eeuw bracht industrialisatie, verstedelijking en sociale strijd. In dit derde deel staat de stad als centrum van groei én conflict centraal. Je hoort hoe steenkool, spoorlijnen en koloniale idealen steden zoals Gent, Rotterdam en Aalst veranderden – en welke keerzijden zich daarbij aandienden.Ook cultuur en politiek komen aan bod: van Marx in Brussel tot quarantainemaatregelen in de
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Need Blind

A Memoir of Class and Climbing in America

by Xochitl Gonzalez ...

Narrated by Xochitl Gonzalez ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America todayXochitl Gonzalez has changed economic classes not once, but twice. Raised in a Brooklyn walk-up by working-class, blue-collar ... Read more

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In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors of power in order to illuminate and examine the class divide that defines America todayXochitl Gonzalez has changed economic classes not once, but twice. Raised in a Brooklyn walk-up by working-class, blue-collar
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Who Gets to Be American?

Two Migration Stories, One Nation

by Said Hassan Ahmed PHD ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

In a poignant narrative, this book contrasts the reception of European settlers with today's Somali diaspora in America. We follow the challenging journey of Somali Americans from war-torn origins to influential civic roles. It's a story of resilience and the struggle for acceptance, exploring the reality of 'Americanness' and the ongoing fight for an inclusive national identity. Witness their ... Read more

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In a poignant narrative, this book contrasts the reception of European settlers with today's Somali diaspora in America. We follow the challenging journey of Somali Americans from war-torn origins to influential civic roles. It's a story of resilience and the struggle for acceptance, exploring the reality of 'Americanness' and the ongoing fight for an inclusive national identity. Witness their
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Concise History of Seoul, A: 600 Years from Joseon Capital to Tech Powerhouse

by Sophie Laurent ...

Narrated by Sophie Laurent ...

Unabridged

2 hours 21 min

Trace 600 years of gripping Asian history as a quiet Confucian capital evolves into a sprawling global tech megacity. Perfect for a daily commute or armchair travel, this immersive urban biography explores the dramatic rise of a society shaped by imperial ambition, war, and relentless innovation. Walk the evolving streets from ancient palace courtyards to gleaming glass towers.Feel the restless ... Read more

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Trace 600 years of gripping Asian history as a quiet Confucian capital evolves into a sprawling global tech megacity. Perfect for a daily commute or armchair travel, this immersive urban biography explores the dramatic rise of a society shaped by imperial ambition, war, and relentless innovation. Walk the evolving streets from ancient palace courtyards to gleaming glass towers.Feel the restless
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Chicas muertas

by Selva Almada ...

Narrated by Luciana Falcón ...

Unabridged

3 hours 50 min

Una no ficción atípica que combina percepciones y recuerdos personales con la investigación de tres femicidios en el interior de la Argentina durante la década del 80 y que revelan, de modo sutil, la ferocidad del machismo y la indefensión de las mujeres pobres.Entre los mejores libros del 2020 publicados por editoriales independientes según The Guardian.«Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas ... Read more

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Una no ficción atípica que combina percepciones y recuerdos personales con la investigación de tres femicidios en el interior de la Argentina durante la década del 80 y que revelan, de modo sutil, la ferocidad del machismo y la indefensión de las mujeres pobres.Entre los mejores libros del 2020 publicados por editoriales independientes según The Guardian.«Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas
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Chicago

A Biography

by Dominic A. Pacyga ...

Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

Unabridged

16 hours 19 min

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.”At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past ... Read more

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Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.”At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past
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The Great Indoors

The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

by Emily Anthes ...

Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend ninety percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and ... Read more

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Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend ninety percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and
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