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Inner cities

Here are entered works on densely populated, usually deteriorating, central areas of large cities, inhabited predominantly by poor people, often of a specific ethnic group, and on the social and economic problems of these areas.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Cities and towns

• Inner cities -- Government policy
• Inner cities -- New York (State)
• Inner cities -- United States

• Central cities
• Ghettos, Inner city
• Inner city ghettos
• Inner city problems
• Zones of transitions
• Inner city

• Inner-City Poverty in the United States, ed. by Laurence E. Lynn and Michael McGeary (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Joel Schwartz
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • 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)
• Inner-City Poverty in the United States, ed. by Laurence E. Lynn and Michael McGeary (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• 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)

• Lisbon and Cintra, With Some Account of Other Cities and Historical Sites in Portugal (London: Chatto and WIndus, 1907), by A. C. Inchbold, illust. by Stanley Inchbold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Evils of the Cities: A Series of Practical and Popular Discourses Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, c1891), by T. De Witt Talmage (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cities and Sights of Spain: A Handbook for Tourists (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1904), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ghost Towns of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor Co., c1953), by Dick King (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• My Town: Writers on American Cities (electronic edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Michael Jay Friedman (multiple formats at america.gov)
• 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)
• 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)
• Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America (1999), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)
• Little Journeys in America (Dallas: Southern Pub. Co., c1922), by Rose Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The English Borough in the Twelfth Century (1914), by Adolphus Ballard (PDF at McMaster)

• Central Place Theory (originally published as Scientific Geography #1; c1985), by Leslie J. King (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
• October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Carlo Rotella (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.