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• 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)

• 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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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 Struggle for Self-Government: Being an Attempt to Trace American Political Corruption to its Sources in Six States of the United States (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Lincoln Steffens (page images at Google; US access only)

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

• Drought Management and Its Impact on Public Water Systems, by Colloquium on Drought Management and its Impact on Public Water Systems (page images at NAP)

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

• Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• 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)

• History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by D. A. Hamer (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters (revised edition originally published 1986; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John M. Allswang (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by D. A. Hamer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Class and Community in Frontier Colorado (originally published 1990; open access edition Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2020), by Richard Hogan (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

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

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• 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)

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

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

• Careers in City Politics: The Case for Urban Democracy (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1993), by Timothy Bledsoe (page images at Pitt)
• State Administrative Supervision Over Cities in the United States (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #304; 1928), by Schuyler C. Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The City for the People: or, The Municipalization of the City Government and of Local Franchises (Philadelphia: C. F. Taylor, ca. 1900), by Frank Parsons
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)
• Newer Ideals of Peace, by Jane Addams (HTML at Brock)

• Safe Water from Every Tap: Improving Water Service to Small Communities (1997), by National Research Council Committee on Small Water Supply Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Rambles in Old College Towns (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by John Albert Seaford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.