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• Seven English Cities, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (main report and first set of appendixes only; London: C. Knight, 1835), by Great Britain Commission for Inquiring into the State of the Several Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History (1890), by Charles Gross
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

• The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• The English Borough in the Twelfth Century (1914), by Adolphus Ballard (PDF at McMaster)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• The Land and the Development; or, The Turmoil and the Torment (Hamlyn Lectures, #27; London: Stevens and Sons, 1975), by Desmond Heap (PDF in the UK)

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

• Lodging Houses Acts: The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851, With Plain Directions and Forms for Putting Them Into Execution (London: Shaw and Sons, 1851), by Great Britain, ed. by Robert A. Strange (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)

• Homes of the London Poor, by Octavia Hill (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Octavia Hill and the Social Housing Debate: Essays and Letters (c1998), by Octavia Hill, ed. by Robert Whelan (PDF at Civitas)

• Horrible London (from an 1889 edition; see also How the Poor Live), by George R. Sims (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• How the Poor Live (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883; see also Horrible London), by George R. Sims, illust. by Frederick Barnard (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• Lodging Houses Acts: The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851, With Plain Directions and Forms for Putting Them Into Execution (London: Shaw and Sons, 1851), by Great Britain, ed. by Robert A. Strange (page images at HathiTrust)

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

• City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, c2021), by David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (main report and first set of appendixes only; London: C. Knight, 1835), by Great Britain Commission for Inquiring into the State of the Several Municipal Corporations in England and Wales (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Alice Stopford Green
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text

• English Villages (London: Methuen and Co., 1901), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)

• The Wonderful Visit (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1895), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wonderful Visit (London and New York: Macmillan, 1895), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

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

• Our Digital Rights to the City (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thrilling Cities (c1963), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)

• Belgian Democracy: Its Early History, by Henri Pirenne, trans. by J. V. Saunders (PDF at McMaster)

• Canadian Cities of Romance (New York: George H. Doran, c1922), by Katherine Hale, illust. by Dorothy Stevens (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Mormon Towns in the Region of the Colorado (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #32; 1958), by Leland Hargrave Creer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Probestücke von Städtemauern des Alten Griechenlands (in German; Munich et al.: J. G. Cotta, 1831), by William Gell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)
• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of Cities, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

• London and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Derek Keene (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2012), ed. by Matthew P. Davies and James A. Galloway (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Town Planning in Ancient Dekkan (Chennai: Printed at the Law Printing House, ca. 1916), by C. P. Venkatarama Ayyar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Shannon Christine Mattern (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Cities of Northern and Central Italy (3 volumes; London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1876), by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Western Montana (1913), by Western Montana Association of Commercial Clubs (Javascript-dependent page images at umt.edu)

• Along New England Shores (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936), by A. Hyatt Verrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Seaport Towns of New England (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by John Albert Seaford (page images at HathiTrust)

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