Urban policy

Here are entered works discussing governmental policy directed at solving urban problems including housing, education, health, employment, transportation, criminal justice, poverty, race relations, etc.

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• Social policy
• Sociology, Urban
• City and town life
• Economic policy

• City planning
• Urban renewal

• Urban policy -- China
• Urban policy -- Congresses
• Urban policy -- Developing countries
• Urban policy -- United States
• Community development, Urban
• Land use, Urban
• Urban beautification
• Urban transportation
• Urban transportation policy
• Urbanization

• Cities and state
• Urban problems

• The Changing Rural Habitat, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • volume I: PDF files at archnet.org
  • volume II: PDF files at archnet.org

• Housing: Process and Physical Form, ed. by Linda Safran (PDF files at archnet.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • volume I: PDF files at archnet.org
  • volume II: PDF files at archnet.org

• Reading the Contemporary African City, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org)

• The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (c2006), ed. by Rutherford H. Platt (PDF files at umass.edu)

• Reading the Contemporary African City, ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF files at archnet.org)

• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure, ed. by Royce Hanson (page images at NAP)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at archnet.org)

• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making, by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images at NAP)

• 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)
• 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)

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

• Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation, by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images at NAP)

• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 (Washington: Congressional Budget Office, 2011), by Edward Harris and Frank Sammartino (PDF with commentary at cbo.gov)

• Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases (third printing; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), by Clement E. Vose (multiple formats at Google)

• The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America, by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)
• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

• Homelessness in California (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2001), by John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky (PDF at Berkeley)

• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (2009), by National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (U.S.) and National Coalition for the Homeless (U.S.) (PDF at nationalhomeless.org)

• The End of Economic Growth (2006), by Charles Siegel (HTML and PDF with commentary at preservenet.com)
• Increasing Home Efficiency (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Martha Bensley Bruère and Robert W. Bruère (page images at Google; US access only)
• Midas Gold, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Selling Mrs. Consumer (New York: The Business Bourse, 1929), by Christine McGaffey Frederick (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• Assessing Changing Food Consumption Patterns, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)
• Studies on Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996), by United States General Accounting Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of the Treasury, and United States Congressional Budget Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beauty for Ashes (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1914), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy (Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press, c2009), by Dean Baker (PDF at deanbaker.net)

• Colonias, A Third World Within Our Borders: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Eagle Pass, TX, May 15, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• 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)

• An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton

• Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (conference edition, c2012), by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, and Kanako Iuchi (Flash at issuu.com)

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