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• 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)

• Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports, ed. by John W. Reps (illustrated HTML at Cornell)

• City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Modernity and Housing (originally published 1993; open access edition with new preface, ca. 2018), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files at MIT)

• Plan of Chicago: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commercial Club During the Years MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCMVIII (Chicago: The Commercial Club, 1909), by Daniel Hudson Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, ed. by Charles Moore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Blair A. Ruble (HTML at UC Press)

• For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics, and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Robert B. Fairbanks (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Cities and the Sea: Port City Planning in Early Modern Europe (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Josef W. Konvitz (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1997), by R. Bruce Stephenson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1900-1995 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1997), by R. Bruce Stephenson (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Mansel G. Blackford
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Mansel G. Blackford
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by John F. Bauman and Edward K. Muller (page images at Pitt)

• Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Anne E. Mosher (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Behind the Scenes: The Politics of Planning Adelaide (c2012), by Michael Llewellyn-Smith (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)

• 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)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Cenni Storici sui Lavori Geodetici e Topografici e Sulle Principali Produzioni Cartografiche Eseguite in Italia dalla Metà del Secolo XVIII ai Nostri Giorni (in Italian; Florence: Coi tipi dell' Istituto Geografico Militare, 1903), by Attilio Mori
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org; images stripped out
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections (6 volumes; New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928), by I. N. Phelps Stokes, contrib. by F. C. Wieder and Victor Hugo Paltsits
  • Volume I: page images at Columbia
  • Volume II: page images at Columbia
  • Volume III: page images at Columbia
  • Volume IV: page images at Columbia
  • Volume V: page images at Columbia
  • Volume VI: page images at Columbia

• From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1993), by Adrian George Traas (PDF at US Army CMH)

• La Vie Municipale Dans L'Egypte Romaine (in French; Paris: Fontemoing et cie., 1911), by Pierre Jouguet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c1999), by Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by D. A. Hamer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Wen-Hsin Yeh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Class and Community in Frontier Colorado (originally published 1990; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020), by Richard Hogan (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village (originally published 1971; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas F. Sheppard (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

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

• Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)

• The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Daniel R. Brower (HTML at UC Press)

• History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by D. A. Hamer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (revised edition originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John M. Allswang (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

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)

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