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Cities and towns, Ancient

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• Geography, Ancient
• Cities and towns

• Cities and towns, Ancient -- Egypt

• Orthogonal Town Planning in Antiquity (with an added appendix; c1971), by F. Castagnoli (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

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

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

• Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire (Jerome lectures #19; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by Claude Nicolet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eratosthenis Geographicorum Fragmenta (in Latin; Göttingen: Vandenhoek et Ryprecht, 1789), by Eratosthenes, ed. by Günther Karl Fridrich Seidel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Voyage of Nearchus; and The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Greek text with English translation and notes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1809), by Arrian, trans. by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)
• An Alphabetical Encyclopaedia of Institutions, Persons, Events, etc., of Ancient History and Geography (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1906), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ed. by William Smith (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean (2 volumes; London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)

• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)

• Classical Geography, by Henry Fanshawe Tozer (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Pays Atlantiques Décrits par Homère: Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amérique (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1879), by Théophile Cailleux
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Hand-Book of Classical Geography, Chronology, Mythology, and Antiquities: Prepared for the Use of Schools (Boston: Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1861), by Thomas Prentiss Allen and William Francis Allen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• Norfolk, the Marine Metropolis of Virginia, and the Sound and River Cities of North Carolina: A Narrative (Raleigh, NC: Geo. I Nowitzky, 1888), by George I. Nowitzky (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.