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Community development, Urban

Here are entered general works on urban community development and works limited to urban community development in regions, counties, states, etc. Works on community development in individual cities, city regions, or metropolitan areas are entered under the heading Community development with local subdivision.

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• City planning
• Sociology, Urban
• Urban policy
• Community development

• Community development, Urban -- England
• Community development, Urban -- Georgia
• Community development, Urban -- Great Britain
• Community development, Urban -- United States

• Community development, Urban -- Citizen participation
• Community development, Urban -- Government policy
• Community development, Urban -- Social aspects
• Community programs, Urban
• Neighborhood improvement programs
• Urban community development
• Urban economic development

• "The Power of Neighborhood" and the Commons (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, c2014), by P. M. (PDF at o500.org)

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

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

• 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)

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)
• The Master Plan; With a Discussion of the Theory of Community Land Planning Legislation (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1938), by Edward M. Bassett (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)
• Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (Cambridge, MA: Printed for the American Social Science Association, 1870), by Frederick Law Olmsted (reprint: page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Comment Reconstruire Nos Cités Détruites: Notions d'Urbanisme s'Appliquant aux Villes, Bourges et Villages (Paris: A. Collin, 1916), by D. Alf. Agache, Jean Aubertin, and Redont
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)

• Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital (National Park Service source book series #4; Washington, GPO, 1946), ed. by Saul Kussiel Padover, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 1860-1930, Memories: A Winning Crusade To Revive George Washington's Vision of a Capital City (Washington: Press of W. F. Roberts Co., 1931), by Glenn Brown (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)

• Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Udo Grashoff (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing Question, by Friedrich Engels (HTML at marxists.org)
• Taking a Stand on Housing, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Planning the Neighborhood (first book in the Standards for Heathful Housing series; Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1948), by American Public Health Association Committee on the Hygiene of Housing (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), ed. by Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin J. Keys (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
• Housing Needs and Policy Approaches: Trends in Thirteen Countries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), ed. by Willem Van Vliet, Elizabeth D. Huttman, and Sylvia Fleis Fava (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.