PD Smith

Audiobook of City

10 April 2013 | City | 2 comments

I spent yes­ter­day on a train (actu­al­ly, sev­er­al trains) lis­ten­ing for the first time to the audio­book of City. The nar­ra­tor is Steven Cross­ley and he reads it beau­ti­ful­ly. It’s a new expe­ri­ence for me, lis­ten­ing to some­one else read my words. I haven’t heard all of it yet — it’s more than thir­teen hours long! — but I cer­tain­ly enjoyed the expe­ri­ence. And I hope you will too. You can find it at Audi­ble in the UK or the US.

City is still pick­ing up reviews, most recent­ly in the Spring 2013 issue of Urban Design jour­nal, where it was described as “an excel­lent intro­duc­tion to the city, and should be on every stu­den­t’s read­ing list”.

2 comments so far:

  1. Paul Halpern | 26 April 2013

    Con­grat­u­la­tions on the audio­book ver­sion of City! Yes it is cer­tain­ly an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence hear­ing some­one else nar­rate one’s own words (which were orig­i­nal­ly one’s thoughts!)
    I’ve been enjoy­ing City very much. I’m real­ly learn­ing a lot. I love how it is organ­ised into themes, such as traf­fic pat­terns, archi­tec­ture, and so forth. It is incred­i­bly well-researched.

  2. PD Smith | 26 April 2013

    Thanks Paul — I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoy­ing it 🙂