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Art, Municipal

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• Cities and towns
• Public art
• Urban beautification
• Art

• City planning

• Art, Municipal -- Illinois
• Art, Municipal -- Missouri
• Art, Municipal -- New York (State)
• Art, Municipal -- Washington (D.C.)
• Art, Municipal -- Wisconsin

• Civic art
• Municipal art
• Municipal improvements

• Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago, Especially Prepared for Study in the Schools of Chicago (1915), by Walter D. Moody (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Problems of St. Louis: Being a Description, From the City Planning Standpoint, of Past and Present Tendencies of Growth, With General Suggestions for Impending Issues and Necessary Future Improvements (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1917), by Saint Louis City Plan Commission, contrib. by Harland Bartholomew (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Loiterer in New York: Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1917), by Helen W. Henderson, contrib. by Paul Wayland Bartlett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art Treasures of Washington: An Account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, With Descriptions and Criticisms of Their Contents; Including, Also, An Account of the Works of Art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the Most Important Statuary in the City (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1912), by Helen W. Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 1860-1930, Memories: A Winning Crusade To Revive George Washington's Vision of a Capital City (Washington: Press of W. F. Roberts Co., 1931), by Glenn Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Madison, A Model City, by John Nolen (searchable HTML at Wisconsin)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v20; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2017), ed. by Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (in English, Chinese, and Spanish; c2013), by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, and Kanako Iuchi (PDF files with commentary at worldbank.org)
• The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (second edition; Princeton et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1963), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Master Plan; With a Discussion of the Theory of Community Land Planning Legislation (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1938), by Edward M. Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Best Arrangement of City Streets, by Lewis M. Haupt (page images at MOA)
• Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Designing Modern America: The Regional Planning Association of America and its Members (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Edward K. Spann (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Die Einheitliche Blockfront als Raumelement im Stadtbau: Ein Beitrag zur Stadtbaukunst der Gegenwart (Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1911), by Walter Curt Behrendt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Cambridge, MA: Printed for the American Social Science Association, 1870), by Frederick Law Olmsted (reprint: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution (1971), by P. A. Yeomans (PDF at soilandhealth.org)

• Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment (originally published 1970), by Nicholas Negroponte
  • interactive edition: illustrated HTML at pubpub.org
  • PDF files at MIT Press

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• Welcome to the Green Village (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2013), by Ad van Wijk (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Esthétique des Villes (second edition, in French; Brussels: Bruyland-Christophe, 1894), by Charles Buls
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Architectural Space in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1972), by Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs, trans. by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (PDF files at MIT)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Unleashing Economic Growth: Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal (Manila: Asian Development Bank, c2010), by KyeongAe Choe and Pushkar K. Pradhan (PDF with commentary at adb.org)

• Town Planning (partial serial archives)
• Urban Land (published by the Urban Land Institute since the 1940s; articles from 2010 onward online) (partial serial archives)

• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1975), by N. A. Mili︠u︡tin, ed. by George R. Collins and William Alex, trans. by Arthur R. Sprague, contrib. by Tanya Page (PDF files at MIT)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• How Cities Can Grow Old Gracefully: Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, First Session (prepared for the committee; Washington: GPO, 1977), ed. by Henry S. Reuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)

• Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washintgton, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1860-1930, Memories: A Winning Crusade To Revive George Washington's Vision of a Capital City (Washington: Press of W. F. Roberts Co., 1931), by Glenn Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• The City Plan of Kenosha, Wisconsin (St. Louis: H. Bartholomew, 1925), by Harland Bartholomew (page images at Wisconsin)
• Madison, A Model City, by John Nolen (searchable HTML at Wisconsin)

• Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Udo Grashoff (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Question, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Taking a Stand on Housing, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Planning the Neighborhood (first book in the Standards for Heathful Housing series; Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1948), by American Public Health Association Committee on the Hygiene of Housing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), ed. by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)

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