[audiobook] Urban Design for an Urban Century: Shaping More Livable; Equitable; and Resilient Cities by Lance Jay Brown; David Dixon at Arts-Photography

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May be the best book ever written about jazz.mdash;David Thomson; Los Angeles TimesIn eight poetically charged vignettes; Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos; anecdotes; and; most important; the way he hears the music; Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However; music is the driving force of But Beautiful; and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks; eccentricity; and brilliance of each musicians style.