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• History of urban planning

• 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)

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

• Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v20; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2017), ed. by Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Transforming Cities with Transit: Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development (in English, Chinese, and Spanish; c2013), by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, and Kanako Iuchi (PDF files with commentary at worldbank.org)
• The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (second edition; Princeton et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1963), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design (New York et al.: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1950), by Arthur B. Gallion and Simon Eisner, illust. by Anthony Stoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Best Arrangement of City Streets, by Lewis M. Haupt (page images at MOA)
• Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Designing Modern America: The Regional Planning Association of America and its Members (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Edward K. Spann (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Die Einheitliche Blockfront als Raumelement im Stadtbau: Ein Beitrag zur Stadtbaukunst der Gegenwart (Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1911), by Walter Curt Behrendt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)

• 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)

• The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution (1971), by P. A. Yeomans (PDF at soilandhealth.org)

• 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)

• The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment (originally published 1970), by Nicholas Negroponte
  • interactive edition: illustrated HTML at pubpub.org
  • PDF files at MIT Press

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• Welcome to the Green Village (Amsterdam: IOS Press, c2013), by Ad van Wijk (PDF at thegreenvillage.org)
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Esthétique des Villes (second edition, in French; Brussels: Bruyland-Christophe, 1894), by Charles Buls
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Architectural Space in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1972), by Kōnstantinos Apostolou Doxiadēs, trans. by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (PDF files at MIT)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Unleashing Economic Growth: Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal (Manila: Asian Development Bank, c2010), by KyeongAe Choe and Pushkar K. Pradhan (PDF with commentary at adb.org)

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

• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1975), by N. A. Mili︠u︡tin, ed. by George R. Collins and William Alex, trans. by Arthur R. Sprague, contrib. by Tanya Page (PDF files 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.