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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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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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There Is No Place for Us

Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone ...

Narrated by Brian Goldstone, Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

13 hours 19 min

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An
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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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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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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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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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The Death Gap

How Inequality Kills

by David A. Ansell ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of ... Read more

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The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of
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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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A Block in Time

A New York City History at the Corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street

by Christiane Bird ...

Narrated by Alex Picard ...

Unabridged

13 hours 14 min

Bloomsbury presents A Block in Time by Christiane Bird, read by Alex Picard.Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-third Street to the south, Twenty-fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue and ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents A Block in Time by Christiane Bird, read by Alex Picard.Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present.This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-third Street to the south, Twenty-fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue and
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The Sugar Girls

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

by Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...

Narrated by Penny McDonald ...

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing ... Read more

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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing
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The Condemnation of Blackness

Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad ...

Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

Unabridged

12 hours 43 min

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.Following the 1890 census—the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery—crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic ... Read more

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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.Following the 1890 census—the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery—crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic
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Building and Dwelling

Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Unabridged

13 hours 24 min

A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its futureIn this sweeping work, 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. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of ... Read more

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A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its futureIn this sweeping work, 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. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of
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Die schönsten Sagen aus unserem Quedlinburg

by Carsten Kiehne ...

Narrated by Paul Behrens ...

Unabridged

36 min

Oft liegt eine dicke Schicht Staub auf den Werken über Stadt, Land und Leute, die einst von Quedlinburgern verfasst worden, in der Absicht altes Wissen und denkwürdige Begebenheiten zu bewahren. Doch Sagen wollen nicht nur bewahrt, sondern verbreitet werden. Sie sollen uns einladen, die Geschichte zu erleben, in den Alltag und den Glauben unserer Vorfahren einzutauchen. Freilich ist nicht alles an ... Read more

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Oft liegt eine dicke Schicht Staub auf den Werken über Stadt, Land und Leute, die einst von Quedlinburgern verfasst worden, in der Absicht altes Wissen und denkwürdige Begebenheiten zu bewahren. Doch Sagen wollen nicht nur bewahrt, sondern verbreitet werden. Sie sollen uns einladen, die Geschichte zu erleben, in den Alltag und den Glauben unserer Vorfahren einzutauchen. Freilich ist nicht alles an
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This Is All I Got

A New Mother's Search for Home

by Lauren Sandler ...

Narrated by Lauren Sandler ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in AmericaLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Riveting . . . a remarkable feat of reporting.”—The New York TimesCamila is twenty-two years old and a new mother. She has no ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in AmericaLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Riveting . . . a remarkable feat of reporting.”—The New York TimesCamila is twenty-two years old and a new mother. She has no
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Prisoners of the American Dream

Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis ...

Narrated by David Sadzin ...

Unabridged

14 hours 9 min

This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the United States?"One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched." —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for ... Read more

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This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the United States?"One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched." —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for
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Wereldsteden van de lage landen I

Oudheid en middeleeuwen

by Diverse auteurs ...

Narrated by Frank Rigter ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

Hoe zag de wereld eruit vanuit de Lage Landen in de Romeinse tijd en de middeleeuwen?Dit eerste deel van de vierdelige serie Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen voert je langs veertien steden die al eeuwen geleden in verbinding stonden met verre regio’s.Je hoort hoe Nijmegen zich als grensstad ontwikkelde onder Romeins gezag, hoe Brugge uitgroeide tot een internationaal handelscentrum, en hoe migratie ... Read more

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Hoe zag de wereld eruit vanuit de Lage Landen in de Romeinse tijd en de middeleeuwen?Dit eerste deel van de vierdelige serie Wereldsteden van de Lage Landen voert je langs veertien steden die al eeuwen geleden in verbinding stonden met verre regio’s.Je hoort hoe Nijmegen zich als grensstad ontwikkelde onder Romeins gezag, hoe Brugge uitgroeide tot een internationaal handelscentrum, en hoe migratie
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Thomas Sweatt: Inside the Mind of D.C.'s Most Notorious Arsonist

by Jonathan Riffe ...

Narrated by Sam Graham ...

Unabridged

4 hours 7 min

Between 1980 and 2005, a serial arsonist terrorized neighborhoods throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. In 2005, Thomas Sweatt was arrested and eventually confessed to over 340 arson-set fires that killed 4 people. Investigators named him the "most prolific and dangerous serial arsonist in American history." Dozens of authors, TV producers, and movie producers tried to contact Thomas ... Read more

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Between 1980 and 2005, a serial arsonist terrorized neighborhoods throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. In 2005, Thomas Sweatt was arrested and eventually confessed to over 340 arson-set fires that killed 4 people. Investigators named him the "most prolific and dangerous serial arsonist in American history." Dozens of authors, TV producers, and movie producers tried to contact Thomas
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Extreme Cities

The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

by Ashley Dawson ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities ... Read more

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How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today, the majority of the world's megacities
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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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Abolish Rent

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

by Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis ...

Narrated by Sharp Radway ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing ... Read more

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Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing
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Ghetto

The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

by Mitchell Duneier ...

Narrated by Prentice Onayemi ...

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot ... Read more

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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot
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Vila Esperança

Luta por Moradia em Imperatriz-MA

by Glenda Almeida Moreira ...

Narrated by Voz Artificial ...

Abridged

2 hours 49 min

"Entre avenidas em expansão, condomínios fechados e promessas de "desenvolvimento", nasce a Vila Esperança, em Imperatriz (MA): uma ocupação que vira palco de disputas por terra, reconhecimento e dignidade. Caminhando pela trajetória de formação do bairro, Glenda Moreira acompanha a luta por moradia a partir de uma pergunta incômoda — "vila, bairro, ocupação, comunidade ou invasão?" — e mostra ... Read more

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"Entre avenidas em expansão, condomínios fechados e promessas de "desenvolvimento", nasce a Vila Esperança, em Imperatriz (MA): uma ocupação que vira palco de disputas por terra, reconhecimento e dignidade. Caminhando pela trajetória de formação do bairro, Glenda Moreira acompanha a luta por moradia a partir de uma pergunta incômoda — "vila, bairro, ocupação, comunidade ou invasão?" — e mostra
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