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Small Town (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Granville Hicks, contrib. by Warren F. Broderick and Ron Powers (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
Degeneration Amongst Londoners (1885), by James Cantlie (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
Sunshine sketches of a little town / by Stephen Leacock; with a frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo. (New York : John Lane company ; London : John Lane, [1912?]), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Living too fast : or, The confession of a bank officer / (Boston: : Lee and Shepard,; New York : Charles T. Dillingham, 1876), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
Poppea of the post-office / (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1909), by Mabel Osgood Wright, Margaret West Kinney, Margaret West Kinney, Norwood Press. prt, and Macmillan Company. pbl, illust. by Troy Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of town & window gardening/ (London : J. Lane, 1903), by Mrs. Frances Anne Bardswell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The 1978 HUD survey on the quality of community life : a data book. (Washington : Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Division of Policy Studies, 1978), by United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research. Division of Policy Studies and Louis Harris and Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
Books on city government and city life. Selection from the Free Public Library of Jersey City. ([Jersey City], 1912), by Free Public Library of Jersey City (page images at HathiTrust)
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle / (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1895), by T. De Witt Talmage and Richard S. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. : and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis / (London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821), by Pierce Egan, Robert Cruikshank, and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
Low-life, or, One half of the world, knows not how the other half live : being a critical account of what is transacted by people of almost all religions, nations, circumstances, and sizes of understanding, in the twenty-four hours between Saturday-night and Monday-morning : in a true description of a Sunday, as it is usually spent with the bills of morality : calculated for the twenty-first of June : with an address to the ingenious and ingenuous Mr. Hogarth (London : Printed for the Author and sold by T. Legg, [1752]), by William Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
Gorod : stikhi / (Parizh : AR, 1920), by Aleksandr Rubakin, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, and Artists' Books Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Winesburg, Ohio : intimate histories of every-day people / (London : J. Cape, 1922), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle / (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1896), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
The 1981 White House Conference on Aging : report of the mini-conference on the urban elderly. ([Washington, D.C.?] : The Conference, 1981), by White House Conference on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
Les idylles / (Paris : Imprimé pour la Société du livre d'art, 1911), by Theocritus, Étienne Siry, A. Lahure, Camille Beltrand, G. Beltrand, Jacques Beltrand, Henri de Seynes de Larlenque, Bernard Sancholle-Henraux, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) IU-R, and Société du livre d'art, trans. by Leconte de Lisle, illust. by René Ménard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Cock and Anchor : being a chronicle of old Dublin City. (Dublin : W. Curry, 1845), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (page images at HathiTrust)
The gilded age : a tale of to-day / (Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1876, c1873), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Plans of economy, or, The road to ease and independence / (London : Printed for the author, J. Hatchard, [1810?]), by William Green (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Chester tales. (New York, Greenwood Press, [1969, c1898]), by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (page images at HathiTrust)
The idylls of Theocritus. (London, G. Bell, 1901), by Theocritus, ed. by R. J. Cholmeley (page images at HathiTrust)
The gilded age : a tale of to-day / (Hartford, Conn. : American Publ. Co., 1901), by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Case, and Conn.) Hartford Press (Hartford, contrib. by H.G. Newbegin Company and Conn.) American Publishing Company (Hartford (page images at HathiTrust)
Middlemarch : a study of provincial life / (New York : Harper and Brothers, 1873), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
Neighbors or urbanites? The study of a Rochester residential district. (Rochester, University of Rochester, 1952), by Donald L. Foley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Our city : a city reader / (New York ; Philadelphia : Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, c1910), by Helen K. Yerkes and Walter Lefferts (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Creole days (New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1883), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of New York from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty : containing, among many surprising and curious matters ... / (London : J. Lane, l900), by Washington Irving, Robert Howard Russell, Daniel Berkeley Updike, copyright holder R.H. Russell (Firm), and printer Merrymount Press, contrib. by John Lane Company, illust. by Maxfield Parrish (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sputnik prakticheskoĭ zhizni : illi︠u︡stririvannyĭ sbornik bcevozmozhnykh prakticheskikh sbi︠e︡di︠e︡nīĭ i poleznykh sovi︠e︡tov dli︠a︡ gorodskoĭ i derevenskoĭ zhizni / (S-Peterburg : Izdanīe G.G. Brodersena, 1904), by G. G. Brodersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
City sizes and quality of life : some observations / ([Berkeley : Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley, 1975), by William Alonso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle / (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure, 1891), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
Main Street / ([New York, N.Y.?] : Grosset & Dunlap, [1922], c1920), by Sinclair Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
City shadows, (New York, Friendship press, [c1938]), by Robert Wyckoff Searle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La petite ville, (Beauvais, Impr. de C. Moisand, 1857), by Constant Moisand (page images at HathiTrust)
Can city life be made endurable? / (Worcester, MA. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1900), by Edward S. Morse and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
The Quaker city; or, The monks of Monk Hall, a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime. (Philadelphia, Leary, Stuart, [c1876]), by George Lippard (page images at HathiTrust)
Vida municipal, (Madrid : Imprenta renacimiento, 1916), by Alvaro Figueroa y Torres Romanones, Vicente Santamaría de Paredes, and Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (Spain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Kal Den 12te, Lufta : skizzer af en Kristianiaguts liv / (Kristiania : forlagt af Jacob Dybewad, 1902), by Morten Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Incomes and expenditures of village and town families in Minnesota / (St. Paul, [Minn.] : University Farm, 1929), by Carle Clark Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Incomes and expenditures of Minnesota farm and city families, 1927-28 / (St. Paul, [Minn.] : University Farm, 1929), by Carle Clark Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The friendly town : a little book for the urbane. (London : Methuen, [1912]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The sociology of city life, (New York Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Niles Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
Anna of the Five Towns; a novel, (New York, George H. Doran, 1912 [c1902]), by Arnold Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The city worker's world in America. (New York, Arno, 1971 [c1917]), by Mary K. Simkhovitch (page images at HathiTrust)
The Federal Government and the future of urban life : hearings before the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, June 23 and 24, 1975. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Currency United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
A peep at "number five:" or, A chapter in the life of a city pastor. (Boston, Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1852), by H. Trusta (page images at HathiTrust)
Rusticité et urbanité romaines / (Paris : Belin, 1909), by Henri Bléry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The city worker's world in America, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1917), by Mary K. Simkhovitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
"Our landlady" / (Mitchell SD : Friends of the Middle Border, 1941), by L. Frank Baum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The friendly town; a little book for the urbane, (London, Methuen & co., [1905]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The City Summit : building communities of opportunity. ([Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, [1996?]), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (page images at HathiTrust)
The friendly town : a little book for the urbane / (New York : Macmillan, 1905), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
The friendly town; a little book for the urbane. (London, Methuen., [1910]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Manhattan transfer. (Boston, Houghton Mifflin New York, Literary Classics, Inc., [©1925]), by John Dos Passos (page images at HathiTrust)
Recuerdo de la Habana = Souvenir of Havana : photo-gravures. (Brooklyn, N.Y. : Albertype Co. ; Habana : Cuban American Publishing Co., [1900?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ermahnung an Islambol; oder, Strafgedicht des türkischen Dichters Uweïssi über die Ausartung der Osmanen. (Berlin, In Commission der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1811), by Veysî and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (page images at HathiTrust)
La paysanne pervertie; ou, Les dangers de la ville. Histoire d'Ursule R***, (Bruxelles, J. J. Gay, 1883), by Restif de La Bretonne (page images at HathiTrust)
Urban behavior. (New York, Macmillan, [1954]), by E. Gordon Ericksen (page images at HathiTrust)
Grosstadtheimat, Beobachtungen zur Naturgeschichte des Grossstadtvolkes. (Hamburg, G. Boysen, 1915), by Walther Classen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Urbanization, its effects on government and society, (New York, E.P. Dutton & company, [c1927]), by John Giffin Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
A survey of citizen views and concerns about urban life : final report, part I / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978), by Louis Harris and Associates and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
Town and country, (Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina press, 1928), by Elva E. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life (New York, The Modern library, [1919]), by Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
J. Hardin & son : a novel / (New York ; London : D. Appleton and Co., 1923), by Brand Whitlock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The goodness of St. Rocque, and other stories. (College Park, Md., McGrath Pub. Co., [1969]), by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The sociology of city life / (New York : Longmans, Green, 1932), by Niles Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
Bracebridge Hall. (London, Macmillan & Co., 1877), by Washington Irving, R. & R. Clark (Firm) prt, and Macmillan & Co. pbl, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (page images at HathiTrust)
The gilded age : a tale of to-day / (Hartford : American Publishing Company, c1873), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Tōkyō gaku. ([1909]), by Tengai Ishikawa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New Arabian nights / (New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report. (University Park, Penn. : Harrisburg Urban Research Station, Division of Man-Environment Relations, College of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, [1975?-), by Pennsylvania State University. Harrisburg Urban Research Station (page images at HathiTrust)
The friendly town; a little book for the urbane, (New York, H. Holt and company, [1926]), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
The freedom of the city / (New York : Duffield and Co., 1926), by Charles Downing Lay (page images at HathiTrust)
Dandelion cottage / (New York : H. Holt, 1930, c1904), by Carroll Watson Rankin, illust. by Elizabeth R Finley and Florence Scovel Shinn (page images at HathiTrust)
The resolute Mr. Pansy : an electrical story for boys / (Boston : Roberts Bros., c1897), by John Trowbridge, illust. by Victor A. Searles (page images at HathiTrust)
Plain Jane and pretty Betty, or, The girl who won out / by May Hollis Barton. (New York : Cupples & Leon, c1926), by May Hollis Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
The water cress girl, or, Little Aggy. (Boston : H.A. Young & Co., 1869), by Madeline Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
The girl from the country, or, Laura Mayford's city experiences / (New York : Cupples & Leon, c1926), by May Hollis Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
A survey of citizen views and concerns about urban life : final report / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1978-), by Louis Harris and Associates and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
The friendly town : a little book for the urbane / (New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1909), by E. V. Lucas and Bertha Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
Verzameling der fraaiste gezigten van Amsterdam : in negen en zeventig afbeeldingen. (Te Amsterdam : By Petrus Conradi ; Te Harlingen : By V. van der Plaats, MDCCLXXXII [1782]), by Jacob Folkema, Reinier Vinkeles, Jan Goeree, and Jan Wagenaar (page images at HathiTrust)
Kasim : a play of Persia. (New York : Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, [1926], [©1926]), by Helen L. Willcox (page images at HathiTrust)
The little shoemaker; or, The orphan's victory / (Richmond : Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1867), by Sarah A. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
The humours and conversations of the town (1693) / (Gainesville, Fla., Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961), by James Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
The Federal Government and the future of urban life [microform] : hearings before the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, June 23 and 24, 1975. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Currency United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle / (Chicago : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., 1903), by T. De Witt Talmage and Richard S. Teaching the deaf to speak Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
Understanding the city child: a book for parents / (New York, F. Watts, [1959]), by Dorothy Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
Metropolis; a study of urban communities, (New York, London, D. Appleton-Century Co., [©1938]), by Howard Brown Woolston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New chronicles of Rebecca / (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, Pub., c1907), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (page images at HathiTrust)
Toshi seikatsu no kenkyū / (Kyōto-shi : Kōbundō, Taishō 13 [1924]), by Tadashi Yamaguchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Spectacles for young eyes : Berlin / (Boston : Walker, Fuller, 1865), by Sarah W. Lander (page images at HathiTrust)
The goodness of St. Rocque and other stories / (New York : AMS Press, 1975), by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Urban worlds; a comparative study of four Los Angeles areas. ([Los Angeles] Occidental College, 1955), by Occidental College. Laboratory in Urban Culture and Scott A. Greer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The tale of Johnny Town-mouse / (New York : Frederick Warne and Co., [1918]), by Beatrix Potter, contrib. by Janice Dohm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Susan and Edward, or, A visit to Fulton Markert : [Six lines of verse]. (New-York : S.M. Crane, 374 Pearl-St., 1847), by Hovey & King Egbert, contrib. by Stephen M. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
Michael O'Halloran / (Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915), by Gene Stratton-Porter, printer Country Life Press, Country Life Press. prt, and Page & Company. pbl Doubleday, contrib. by Page & Company Doubleday, illust. by Frances Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
An old-fashioned girl / (New York : A. L Burt, c1912), by Louisa May Alcott, contrib. by A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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