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Cities and towns -- Growth -- Strategic aspects

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• Cities and towns -- Growth
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• Complex Terrain: Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban Operations (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2019), ed. by Benjamin M. Jensen, Henrik Breitenbauch, and Brandon Valeriano (PDF with commentary at usmcu.edu)

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• 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)

• The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo (1985), ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)

• Expansive Discourses: Residential Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2009), by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993), by John D. Fairfield (PDF at Ohio State)

• Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (originally published 2001; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Carolyn S. Loeb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street (London: UCL Press, c2015), ed. by Laura Vaughan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street (London: UCL Press, c2015), ed. by Laura Vaughan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Midlander (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Duke in the Suburbs (London: Ward Lock and Co., 1909), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventures of a Suburbanite (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by A. B. Phelan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
  • illustrated HTML at pseudopodium.org
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Diary of a Nobody (based on the 1892 Arrowsmith edition and the 1888-1889 Punch serial), by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Suburban Sketches, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Coming Up for Air (1939), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and MIT Press, 1962), by Sam Bass Warner (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)

• 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 Suburbs of Cincinnati: Sketches, Historical and Descriptive (Cincinnati: G. E. Stevens and Co., 1870), by Sidney D. Maxwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954 (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1971), by Joseph L. Arnold (PDF at Ohio State)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Refining American Strategy in Africa (2000), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Barry Scott Zellen (PDF at University of Calgary)
• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• The American Army in the Balkans: Strategic Alternatives and Implications (2001), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961 (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999), ed. by Donald P. Steury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David R. Mets
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Proliferation and the Former Soviet Union (OTA-ISS-605; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Iraq: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, in Iraq, Thursday, September 19, 1996 (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Role of the Armed Forces in the Americas: Civil-Military Relations for the 21st Century (conference report; Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 1998), ed. by Donald E. Schulz, contrib. by Richard A. Witherspoon, Michael R. Gonzáles, Richard Downes, Eliézer Rizzo de Oliveira, Fred F. Woerner, Luis Tibiletti, Luís Antonio Bitencourt Emilio, Manuel José Bonett Locarno, Victor Manuel Ventura Arellano, William J. Jefferds, Robert B. James, Thomas C. Bruneau, Judith Gentleman, Victor Tise, William Deane Stanley, and Andrés Serbín
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Complex Terrain: Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban Operations (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2019), ed. by Benjamin M. Jensen, Henrik Breitenbauch, and Brandon Valeriano (PDF with commentary at usmcu.edu)

• Middle East Security Issues in the Shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation (1999), ed. by Barry R. Schneider (PDF at af.mil)

• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Russia in the Arctic (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), ed. by Stephen Blank (multiple formats with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Russia Route Zone A: Murman Railway and Kola Peninsula (Washington: GPO, 1918), by United States War Department Military Intelligence Division
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)

• War and Insurgency in the Western Sahara (Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2013), by Geoffrey Jensen (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

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