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The Devil in the White City

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

par Erik Larson ...

Lu par Scott Brick ...

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15 heure

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 ... En savoir plus

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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

par Annalee Newitz ...

Lu par Chloe Cannon ...

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8 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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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 Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3

Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 1

par Robert A. Caro ...

Lu par Robertson Dean ...

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22 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

$27.00 CAD

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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Trash!

A Garbageman's Story

par Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Lu par Jean Brassard ...

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3 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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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

par Anand Giridharadas ...

Lu par Anand Giridharadas ...

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17 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

$39.99 CAD

**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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Civilisation : Des huttes de terre aux mégapoles, une ascension de 10 000 ans

par Lucas Poirier ...

Lu par Lucas Poirier ...

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2 heure 21 min

Explorez l'histoire fascinante de notre sédentarisation, un récit où l'évolution urbaine révèle la fragilité humaine. Des premiers campements agricoles aux réseaux saturés de nos sociétés modernes, cette vaste fresque historique décrypte les choix technologiques et sociaux qui ont forgé nos modes de vie. Loin d'une simple marche triomphale vers le progrès, c'est une exploration haletante de nos ... En savoir plus

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Explorez l'histoire fascinante de notre sédentarisation, un récit où l'évolution urbaine révèle la fragilité humaine. Des premiers campements agricoles aux réseaux saturés de nos sociétés modernes, cette vaste fresque historique décrypte les choix technologiques et sociaux qui ont forgé nos modes de vie. Loin d'une simple marche triomphale vers le progrès, c'est une exploration haletante de nos
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Brève histoire de Mexico : Comment une île aztèque est devenue une mégapole moderne

par Yves Hamon ...

Lu par Yves Hamon ...

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2 heure 9 min

Plongez dans l'histoire épique d'une cité lacustre aztèque devenue une métropole géante luttant contre sa géographie. De la glorieuse Tenochtitlan entourée de volcans à la conquête destructrice, ce récit retrace sept siècles de défis urbains.Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce documentaire immersif vous transporte au cœur d'une métamorphose fascinante. Laissez-vous captiver par un ... En savoir plus

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Plongez dans l'histoire épique d'une cité lacustre aztèque devenue une métropole géante luttant contre sa géographie. De la glorieuse Tenochtitlan entourée de volcans à la conquête destructrice, ce récit retrace sept siècles de défis urbains.Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce documentaire immersif vous transporte au cœur d'une métamorphose fascinante. Laissez-vous captiver par un
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Guts

The Anatomy of The Walking Dead

par Paul Vigna ...

Lu par Graham Halstead ...

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8 heure 49 min

In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.From its first episode, The Walking Dead took fans in the United States and across the world by storm, becoming the highest-rated series in the history of ... En savoir plus

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In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.From its first episode, The Walking Dead took fans in the United States and across the world by storm, becoming the highest-rated series in the history of
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The Complete Blood, Sweat and Tea

par Tom Reynolds ...

Lu par Daniel Philpott ...

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8 heure 36 min

Collected in one volume, here are the true life stories of London ambulance driver, Tom Reynolds.*Previously published as Sirens, after the Channel 4 TV show inspired by the book*On any given day Tom Reynolds might be attacked by strangers, sworn at by motorists, puked on, covered in blood and other much more unpleasant substances. He could help to deliver a baby in the morning and witness the ... En savoir plus

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Collected in one volume, here are the true life stories of London ambulance driver, Tom Reynolds.*Previously published as Sirens, after the Channel 4 TV show inspired by the book*On any given day Tom Reynolds might be attacked by strangers, sworn at by motorists, puked on, covered in blood and other much more unpleasant substances. He could help to deliver a baby in the morning and witness the
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New York Movies

par Mark Asch, Little White Lies ...

Lu par John Moraitis ...

Collections Livre audio : 3 - Close-Ups
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3 heure 35 min

The indispensable pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach.ALSO AVAILABLE:Close-Ups: Wes AndersonClose-Ups: Vampire MoviesNew York has always been one of the world’s most filmed cities, with its apartments housing tenants like Rosemary's baby and the Royal Tenenbaums, its skyscrapers scaled by the likes of King Kong and graffiti ar... ... En savoir plus

$20.99 CAD

The indispensable pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach.ALSO AVAILABLE:Close-Ups: Wes AndersonClose-Ups: Vampire MoviesNew York has always been one of the world’s most filmed cities, with its apartments housing tenants like Rosemary's baby and the Royal Tenenbaums, its skyscrapers scaled by the likes of King Kong and graffiti ar...
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Santé Métropole

Stratégies de bien-être et de pleine conscience pour les habitants des mégapoles

par Antoine Lancer ...

Lu par AI Voice Joffrey Lorre ...

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2 heure 32 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Le réveil sonne, le bruit des travaux commence et la pollution sature l’air : pour beaucoup d’entre nous, la ville est devenue un terrain d’épuisement permanent. Entre le stress chronique, le manque de sommeil et la surcharge informationnelle, vivre en métropole ressemble souvent à une lutte contre un environnement hostile qui dégrade silencieusement ... En savoir plus

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Le réveil sonne, le bruit des travaux commence et la pollution sature l’air : pour beaucoup d’entre nous, la ville est devenue un terrain d’épuisement permanent. Entre le stress chronique, le manque de sommeil et la surcharge informationnelle, vivre en métropole ressemble souvent à une lutte contre un environnement hostile qui dégrade silencieusement
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After Redlining

The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

par Rebecca K. Marchiel ...

Lu par Auto-narrated ...

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10 heure 41 min

Focusing on Chicago’s West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long ... En savoir plus

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Focusing on Chicago’s West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long
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Golden Gates

Fighting for Housing in America

par Conor Dougherty ...

Lu par Conor Dougherty ...

Version Longue

8 heure 15 min

A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism•Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment ... En savoir plus

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A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism•Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment
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The Only Street in Paris

Life on the Rue Des Martyrs

par Elaine Sciolino ...

Lu par Elaine Sciolino ...

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8 heure

Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their ... En savoir plus

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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their
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Inclusive Transportation

A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

par Veronica O. Davis ...

Lu par Tyanni Mah ...

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4 heure 45 min

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the United States face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that ... En savoir plus

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Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the United States face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that
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The Next American City

The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros

par Mick Cornett, Jayson White ...

Lu par Tom Weitzel ...

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8 heure 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
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Mallparks

Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

par Michael T. Friedman ...

Lu par Barry Abrams ...

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10 heure 47 min

In Mallparks, Michael Friedman observes that just as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns, and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban America at the turn of the twenty-first century.Grounded in the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's analyses of consumption spaces, the book examines how the designers of this ... En savoir plus

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In Mallparks, Michael Friedman observes that just as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns, and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban America at the turn of the twenty-first century.Grounded in the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's analyses of consumption spaces, the book examines how the designers of this
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The New Urban Crisis

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do about It

par Richard Florida ...

Lu par Traber Burns ...

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8 heure 3 min

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... En savoir plus

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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth
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Architecture of Departure, The: A Working-Class Guide to Surviving the Extraction Engine

par Edward Todd Harris III ...

Lu par Digital Voice Madison G ...

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40 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Architecture of Departure: A Working-Class Guide to Surviving the Extraction EngineThe activist class demands a sacrifice you do not owe them; they ask marginalized folks to stand inside a burning building and negotiate with the fire. The Architecture of Departure aggressively challenges the mythology that citizens are obligated to stay and fix a ... En savoir plus

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Architecture of Departure: A Working-Class Guide to Surviving the Extraction EngineThe activist class demands a sacrifice you do not owe them; they ask marginalized folks to stand inside a burning building and negotiate with the fire. The Architecture of Departure aggressively challenges the mythology that citizens are obligated to stay and fix a
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The Ghosts of 10th Avenue

A Story of Homelessness, Race, and Remembrance

par Julie Salamon ...

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13 heure

The discovery of a forgotten graveyard upends a multi-million-dollar Manhattan real estate deal in this richly drawn exploration of the crisis of urban homelessness and its intersection with historyIn late 2019, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) put a $1 million nonrefundable downpayment on a piece of land in Upper Manhattan. As one of the largest and most important nonprofits of its kind, BRC ... En savoir plus

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The discovery of a forgotten graveyard upends a multi-million-dollar Manhattan real estate deal in this richly drawn exploration of the crisis of urban homelessness and its intersection with historyIn late 2019, the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) put a $1 million nonrefundable downpayment on a piece of land in Upper Manhattan. As one of the largest and most important nonprofits of its kind, BRC
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Bullies

A Friendship

par Alex Abramovich ...

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6 heure 15 min

The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities.Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met again, ... En savoir plus

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The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities.Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met again,
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World Is Always Coming to an End, The

Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

par Carlo Rotella ...

Lu par Carlo Rotella ...

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9 heure 45 min

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a ... En savoir plus

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An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a
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A Paradise of Small Houses

The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

par Max Podemski ...

Lu par Rob Greenbaum ...

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10 heure 16 min

From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housingThe Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of ... En savoir plus

$37.00 CAD

From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housingThe Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of
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Never Ran, Never Will

Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City

par Albert Samaha ...

Lu par Albert Samaha ...

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9 heure 11 min

This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn; its proud youth football team, the Mo Better Jaguars; and the young boys who are often ... En savoir plus

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This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn; its proud youth football team, the Mo Better Jaguars; and the young boys who are often
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