Best Sellers
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Construction Project Management
- How the Great Ones Do It
- Written by: Joe Egan
- Narrated by: Joseph R Egan
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Many want to achieve success in being a project manager, but not everyone is given a roadmap on how to get there. Think about it. You worked hard, got promoted into a project management position and then what....
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People management
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-13
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Blue Architecture
- Water, Design, and Environmental Futures
- Written by: Brook Muller - editor
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Brook Muller offers a "hydro-logical" philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop....
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The Nature of Our Cities
- Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
- Written by: Nadina Galle
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more vital.
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- Written by: David Owen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
- Center for Environmental Structure Series
- Written by: Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, a workshop, or a public building....
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It’s like an architectural lullaby
- By Marlise on 2024-05-17
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At Home
- A Short History of Private Life
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home....
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Interesting, I learned a lot
- By Karen on 2018-02-25
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Construction Project Management
- How the Great Ones Do It
- Written by: Joe Egan
- Narrated by: Joseph R Egan
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Many want to achieve success in being a project manager, but not everyone is given a roadmap on how to get there. Think about it. You worked hard, got promoted into a project management position and then what....
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People management
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-13
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Blue Architecture
- Water, Design, and Environmental Futures
- Written by: Brook Muller - editor
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Brook Muller offers a "hydro-logical" philosophy in which architects and planners begin by conceptualizing interactions between existing waterways and the spaces they intend to develop....
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The Nature of Our Cities
- Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
- Written by: Nadina Galle
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more vital.
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- Written by: David Owen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is New York City....
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
- Center for Environmental Structure Series
- Written by: Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, a workshop, or a public building....
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It’s like an architectural lullaby
- By Marlise on 2024-05-17
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At Home
- A Short History of Private Life
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home....
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Interesting, I learned a lot
- By Karen on 2018-02-25
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Walls
- A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
- Written by: David Frye
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest man-made barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live....
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- Written by: Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse....
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Deeply needed a PDF
- By Anonymous User on 2021-07-02
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning"....
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A must-read for any avid Reader.
- By Monique Osborne on 2020-04-25
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.
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The Well-Tempered City
- What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
- Written by: Jonathan F. P. Rose
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050....
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The Timeless Way of Building
- Written by: Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Christopher Alexander presents in it a new theory of architecture, building, and planning which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being.
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Dream Cities
- Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
- Written by: Wade Graham
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe....
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
- Written by: John Ruskin
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A great Ruskin book that is better listened to than read because of the complexity and detail of his writing....
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B is for Bauhaus
- An A-Z of the Modern World
- Written by: Deyan Sudjic
- Narrated by: Dan Morgan
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from authenticity to zips....
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Written by: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own....
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Fantastic
- By Ryan on 2023-01-27
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Disney's Land
- Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
- Written by: Richard Snow
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before....
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So inappropriate
- By Aleksandra on 2023-02-18
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Written by: Jeff Speck
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability....
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Great introduction to smart city design
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-06-25
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Ten Books on Architecture
- Written by: Vitruvius Pollio
- Narrated by: Gary Tredwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture from antiquity and for hundreds of years influenced major buildings around the world....
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- Written by: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Out of Architecture
- The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice
- Written by: Jake Rudin, Erin Pellegrino
- Narrated by: Jake Rudin
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways....
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Architects - you need to hear this audiobook
- By Jen Jacobson on 2023-04-29
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Shipping Container Homes
- The Best Guide to Building a Shipping Container Home and Tiny House Living, Including Plans, Tips, FAQS, and More!
- Written by: Damon Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Yakir
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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This book will explain to you everything you need to know about container homes, including where to buy your containers inexpensively, how to plan the design of your container home, what contractors to hire, and a step-by-step guide to the actual building process....
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Lives in Architecture: Peter Cook
- Written by: Peter Cook
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. Suffused with Peter’s infectious energy, enthusiasm, and charm, this intriguing memoir explores major themes in architecture through the lens of his life and work....
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How Infrastructure Works
- Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
- Written by: Deb Chachra
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes listeners on a fascinating tour of essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs....
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Disappointed
- By CB on 2023-10-22
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A Natural History of North American Trees
- Written by: Donald Culross Peattie
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century....
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Palaces for the People
- How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
- Written by: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....
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Walkable City Rules
- 101 Steps to Making Better Places
- Written by: Jeff Speck
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now....
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Terrific summary of key items. No nonsense.
- By James Burton on 2021-12-01
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Architecture
- A History in 100 Buildings
- Written by: Dan Cruickshank
- Narrated by: Dan Cruickshank
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture....
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- Written by: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....
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Mixed Feelings!
- By Pierre Gauthier on 2021-06-04
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The Last Castle
- The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home
- Written by: Denise Kiernan
- Narrated by: Denise Kiernan
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States....
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The Timeless Way of Building
- Written by: Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.
Written by: Christopher Alexander
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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?
- Triglyph People, Book 1
- Written by: Clive Aslet
- Narrated by: Clive Aslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.
Written by: Clive Aslet
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Japandi Design for Beginners: The Subtle Art of Japanese & Scandinavian Living
- Home Decor Design Essentials: From Scandi Style to Japandi Style
- Written by: Olivia Wilson
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine this: stepping into a room where you instantly felt more at ease, where you felt comfortable and connected to tradition and nature. A room that embraced you with its serene energy, a sanctuary from the noise and chaos of the modern world.
Written by: Olivia Wilson
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As Safe as Houses
- Taking the Gamble Out of Your Home Improvement Project
- Written by: Chris C Penman
- Narrated by: Barry Fike
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Your home is probably your largest monthly expense and ultimately you want it to become an asset, perhaps to pass on to your kids when you’re gone. Why then do homeowners put so little value in the people they hire to work on their homes? If you own an expensive car, you’re not likely to take it to the cheapest garage you can find. If you want a nice smile, you seek out an expensive, private dentist to give you that smile. No one goes to a cheap plastic surgeon or a cheap tattoo artist. Going to court? “Better find myself the cheapest lawyer I can” – said no one ever.
Written by: Chris C Penman
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Professional Practice
- A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings
- Written by: Paul Segal
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional—every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and listenable guide.
Written by: Paul Segal
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
Written by: Carlos Moreno, and others
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The Timeless Way of Building
- Written by: Christopher Alexander
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.
Written by: Christopher Alexander
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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?
- Triglyph People, Book 1
- Written by: Clive Aslet
- Narrated by: Clive Aslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolized a grieving nation's sense of loss. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light.
Written by: Clive Aslet
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Japandi Design for Beginners: The Subtle Art of Japanese & Scandinavian Living
- Home Decor Design Essentials: From Scandi Style to Japandi Style
- Written by: Olivia Wilson
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine this: stepping into a room where you instantly felt more at ease, where you felt comfortable and connected to tradition and nature. A room that embraced you with its serene energy, a sanctuary from the noise and chaos of the modern world.
Written by: Olivia Wilson
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As Safe as Houses
- Taking the Gamble Out of Your Home Improvement Project
- Written by: Chris C Penman
- Narrated by: Barry Fike
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Your home is probably your largest monthly expense and ultimately you want it to become an asset, perhaps to pass on to your kids when you’re gone. Why then do homeowners put so little value in the people they hire to work on their homes? If you own an expensive car, you’re not likely to take it to the cheapest garage you can find. If you want a nice smile, you seek out an expensive, private dentist to give you that smile. No one goes to a cheap plastic surgeon or a cheap tattoo artist. Going to court? “Better find myself the cheapest lawyer I can” – said no one ever.
Written by: Chris C Penman
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Professional Practice
- A Guide to Turning Designs into Buildings
- Written by: Paul Segal
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional—every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and listenable guide.
Written by: Paul Segal
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Written by: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
Written by: Carlos Moreno, and others
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The Nature of Our Cities
- Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
- Written by: Nadina Galle
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us—especially in America’s cities—has never been more vital. This distancing from nature has sparked crises in mental health, longevity, and hope for the next generation, while also heightening the risks we face from historic floods, heatwaves, and wildfires. Indeed, embracing nature holds untapped potential to strengthen and fortify our cities, suburbs, and towns, providing solutions spanning flood preparation, wildfire management, and promoting longevity.
Written by: Nadina Galle
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Dream Cities
- Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
- Written by: Wade Graham
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It tells the stories of the real architects and thinkers whose imagined cities became the blueprints for the world we live in.
Written by: Wade Graham
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Ready, Set, Architect!
- How to Get There, How to Be Successful, and How to Have a Guilt-Free Transition to Something Else
- Written by: Jane Lanahan Decker
- Narrated by: Jane Lanahan Decker
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Ready, Set, Architect! is not just an architectural career handbook. It is the living proof that you can make it out of architecture school alive and thriving. Better still, you can have your design career and move past it, too. Ready, Set, Architect! is part career guide, part memoir, and part activity journal that is bound and determined to show you how to become an architect and come out the other side with options for every 2.0 version of yourself.
Written by: Jane Lanahan Decker
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Under the Dome
- Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
- Written by: Alan M. Hantman, Sen. Harry M. Reid Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In Under the Dome, Alan Hantman, the Architect of the Capitol from 1997 to 2007, provides a personal account of how the Capitol works as a physical space; who runs it, how and why decisions are made about the security of the Capitol and the people who work there, and how politicians think about the Capitol Building.
Written by: Alan M. Hantman, and others
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Enemies at the Gate
- The City Walls of Ancient Rome
- Written by: Patricia Southern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753BC accords very well with the earliest defensive walls on the Palatine Hill, made of clay and timber and showing evidence of animal sacrifices. To trace the continual efforts to fortify Rome is to trace the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - through the taking of the city by the Gauls in 390/387, the wars with the Italian states, the threat of Hannibal, the establishment of the Republic, attacks by the northern tribes and eventual division and collapse.
Written by: Patricia Southern
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Cities in the Sky
- The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
- Written by: Jason M. Barr
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and yet they remain controversial—for their high costs, shadows, and overt grandiosity. But, decade by decade, they keep getting higher and higher. What is driving this global building spree of epic proportions? In Cities in the Sky, author Jason Barr explains all: why they appeal to cities and nations, how they get financed, why they succeed economically, and how they change a city’s skyline and enable the world’s greatest metropolises to thrive in the 21st century.
Written by: Jason M. Barr