Cities and towns -- History
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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
- 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)
- Behind the Scenes: The Politics of Planning Adelaide (c2012), by Michael Llewellyn-Smith (PDF and Epub with commentary at Adelaide)
- 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)
- Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Mansel G. Blackford
- The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Mansel G. Blackford
- 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)
- 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)
- The Truth About "American Ground Transport": A Reply by General Motors (1974), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Truth About "American Ground Transport": A Reply by General Motors (1974), by General Motors Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Trolley Through the Countryside (Denver: Sage Books, 1963), by Allison Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Cartography in the Twentieth Century (History of Cartography v6; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c2015), ed. by Mark S. Monmonier (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 3; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1998), ed. by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 3; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1998), ed. by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 3; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1998), ed. by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 3; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1998), ed. by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 2; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1994), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the European Renaissance (History of Cartography v3, in 2 parts; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c2007), ed. by David Woodward
- Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean (History of Cartography v1; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1987), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- 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
- 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
- Cartography in the European Enlightenment (History of Cartography v4; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c2019), ed. by Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 1; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1992), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean (History of Cartography v1; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1987), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 3; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1998), ed. by David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 1; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1992), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies (History of Cartography v2 book 2; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, c1994), ed. by J. B. Harley and David Woodward (PDF files at Chicago)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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