
The Well-Tempered City
What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
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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. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, and education and health disparities, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose - the man who "repairs the fabric of cities" - distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for how to design and reshape our cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity. Drawing from the musical concept of "temperament" as a way to achieve harmony, Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, well-being, and the ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. These goals may never be fully achieved, but our cities will be richer and happier if we aspire to them and if we infuse our every plan and constructive step with this intention.
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Age of Discovery explores a world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks: how do we share more widely the benefits of unprecedented progress? How do we endure the inevitable tumult generated by accelerating change? How do we each thrive through this tangled, uncertain time? From gains in health, education, wealth and technology to crises of conflict, disease and mass migration, the similarities between today's world and that of the 15th century are both striking and prophetic: we have been here before.
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A monotonous text disguised as casual reading.
- De Rob en 07-29-16
De: Ian Goldin, y otros
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The Great Reset
- How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
- De: Richard Florida
- Narrado por: Eric Conger
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause. But history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity.
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glorification of City Life
- De Ryan Riggs en 11-25-20
De: Richard Florida
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How Soon Is Now
- From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation
- De: Daniel Pinchbeck
- Narrado por: Nathan Osgood
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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The world needs to change. We have unleashed an ecological mega-crisis which is threatening the future of life on Earth. The actions we take over the next decade are critical. They will determine the destiny of our descendants and the fate of our world. How Soon Is Now presents a compelling manifesto for personal and planetary change. It proposes a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement. Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.
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Relevant!!!!
- De Anonymous User en 12-11-23
De: Daniel Pinchbeck
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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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 not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
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A stupid and dangerously short sighted view
- De Gare&Sophia en 11-13-12
De: David Owen
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Resilience
- Why Things Bounce Back
- De: Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.
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Totally Misleading Title
- De Doug en 07-18-12
De: Andrew Zolli, y otros
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The Source
- How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
- De: Martin Doyle
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment - over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development. Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the US Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina.
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Great historical read without compare.
- De Thomas P Dore en 04-10-18
De: Martin Doyle
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Abundance
- The Future Is Better Than You Think
- De: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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Space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
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Perhaps multiply his time estimates by 10
- De Rick en 11-06-21
De: Steven Kotler, y otros
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The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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Connectography
- Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
- De: Parag Khanna
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle to explain the unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets.
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Fluffy and Pretentious
- De Kurt Emery Matson en 12-01-16
De: Parag Khanna
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Crabgrass Frontier
- The Suburbanization of the United States
- De: Kenneth T. Jackson
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day.
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There is so much to think about here.
- De Richard McKown en 06-25-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Well-Tempered City
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- 10-28-17
inspiring, timely and actionable
Having just returned from Lisbon and hearing its history shared by a thirty-four year old guide and your noting the 1755 earthquake as a seminal moment in the design and understanding of our physical and social structures, I thought how we, now, have this significant opportunity to achieve 'entwinement' through the insights and holistic understanding clearly articulated in the 'Well Tempered City'. Thank you.
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- Aida B
- 04-11-19
A wonderful journey through world’s cities
What a stunning documentary this book would be. Jonathan Rose is a master of imagery, a knowledgable guide, and a compassionate visionary for the world and its civilizations.
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- Ricky L Verret, J.D.
- 07-05-19
Eye opening recount of the public and private forces (sometime unintended, sometime conspiring secretly) to destroy urban cores
Eye opening recount of the public and private forces (sometime unintended, sometime conspiring secretly) to destroy urban cores.
Chapters 1-8 provides an enlightening historical review of the evolution of how urban planning and zoning trends, federal housing and transportation policies; private industrial manufacturers and financial institutions conspiratorial actions, combined over the 20th Century to undermine the economic health and sustainability of urban centers by systematically dismantling their essential functional systems, such as mixed income and use communities and public transit systems.
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- H.G. Pony
- 10-10-18
Interesting, well researched, weird quotes
This was a really interesting look at city planning with lots of historical perspective and interesting facts. The one discordant note for me was the weird Michael Jackson impersonation the narrator affected to distinguish the quotations. I get that it can be confusing sometimes if they’re not made distinct somehow, but a breathy falsetto is not the way to do it. It was just a little distracting.
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- Kate
- 10-01-22
The best way to save the future is to look at the past
LONG and I listened at 1.2x speed. But I think it was so packed with info. It was very detailed but sometimes that made me lose track of his goal/argument. It’s very thorough and worth the listen. A good balance of critical and promising/hopeful examples. Documentary-like mood
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- nicholas millisor
- 08-05-18
A new look at the future of cities
Jonathan F.P. Rose work outlines a new plan on how we redevelop cities and through those cities we remake our society. While I do think that his vision can border on the utopian, he does outline several strategy’s that cities have used to deal with many of the issues faced by the US urban areas. I enjoyed the listen,defiantly recommend
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- Patrick
- 01-04-18
Not coherent
This book is a mash up of way too many metaphors. It is vague and confused. He lost me when giving prescriptions on how to reduce "terrorism" without defining the term - unwittingly political. The author appears to be too much of a city-planning specialist, and not enough of a generalist, to speak on such wide ranging topics. Had to stop listening after the first chapter. Would much rather learn the history of city ecology without conflating with musical temperament.
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