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• City and town life -- United States
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• Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard O. Davies (PDF at Ohio State)

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

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

• Tales of City Life, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Future of National Urban Policy (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Marshall Kaplan and Franklin J. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure (1984), ed. by Royce Hanson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making (2002), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Cultural District for Downtown Atlanta (Atlanta: Rearch Atlanta, c2000), by Arthur C. Brooks and Roland Kushner (page images at GSU)

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

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
• How Cities Can Grow Old Gracefully: Subcommittee on the City of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, First Session (prepared for the committee; Washington: GPO, 1977), ed. by Henry S. Reuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Parks: Being Two Papers Read Before the American Social Science Association in 1870 and 1880, Entitled, Respectively, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, and A Consideration of the Justifying Value of a Public Park (1902), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google; US access only)

• Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jon C. Teaford (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City (c2006), ed. by Rutherford H. Platt (PDF files at umass.edu)

• 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)

• Urban Land (published by the Urban Land Institute since the 1940s; articles from 2010 onward online) (partial serial archives)

• Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation (1995), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Homes for Old: Public Housing in Europe and America (Headline Books #22; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1939), by William V. Reed and Elizabeth Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Oonagh McDonald (HTML with commentary at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• 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)

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Oonagh McDonald (HTML with commentary at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)
• Studies on Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996), by United States General Accounting Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of the Treasury, and United States Congressional Budget Office (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

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

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

• Cities (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., c1963), by Lawrence Halprin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The City Plan of Kenosha, Wisconsin (St. Louis: H. Bartholomew, 1925), by Harland Bartholomew (page images at Wisconsin)
• Madison, A Model City, by John Nolen (searchable HTML at Wisconsin)

• 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)

• Planning and Zoning in the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Beverley J. Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton

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

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