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• 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)

• Revised Ordinances of the City of Galesburg, by Galesburg (Ill.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

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• How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (London: Meatspace Press, 2019), ed. by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, and Joe Shaw (multiple formats with commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Dynamic Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill co., c1920), by Arnold Bennett Hall (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2018), ed. by Terry Kading (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Riparian Community Type Classification for Humboldt and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada and Eastern California (1995), by Mary E. Manning and Wayne G. Padgett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Riparian Community Type Classification for Humboldt and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada and Eastern California (1995), by Mary E. Manning and Wayne G. Padgett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Riparian Community Type Classification for Humboldt and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada and Eastern California (1995), by Mary E. Manning and Wayne G. Padgett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grassroots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2003), ed. by Donald Iain Ray and P. S. Reddy (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Jean C. Oi (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• La Vie Municipale Dans L'Egypte Romaine (in French; Paris: Fontemoing et cie., 1911), by Pierre Jouguet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Alice Stopford Green
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text

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

• City Regions and Devolution in the UK: The Politics of Representation (Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, c2021), by David Beel, Martin Jones, and Ian Rees Jones (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• 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 Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James S. Grubb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Beiträge zur Verfassungs- und Finanzgeschichte der Stadt Riga, Erster Beitrag: Erringung der Theilnahme an der Finanzverwaltung durch die Gilden und Sieg der Ständischen Verfassung (in German, no succeeding volumes known; Riga: E. Plate, 1873), by Johannes Keussler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• English Prisons Under Local Government (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, contrib. by Bernard Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The County Council Magazine (full serial archives)

• The County Council Magazine (full serial archives)

• The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936), by James Tait (PDF at McMaster; NO US ACCESS)

• Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2019), by Paromita Sanyal and Vijayendra Rao (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan (Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies #11; 1984), by Robert C. Marshall (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Reed Town, Japan: A Study in Community Power Structure and Political Change (originally published 1974; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Yasumasa Kuroda (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Laws of Michigan Concerning the Organization and Government of Townships, and the Powers and Duties of Township Officers, and Boards of Supervisors, by Elijah Middlebrook Haines (page images at MOA)

• Local Government Ethics Programs: A Resource for Ethics Commission Members, Local Officials, Attorneys, Journalists, and Students, and a Manual for Ethics Reform (second edition, c2013), by Robert Wechsler (multiple formats with commentary at cityethics.org)

• Index to the Local and Special Acts of the State of Michigan, 1803 to 1927 (Lansing: Robert Smith Co., state printers, 1928), ed. by Dennis E. Alward and Charles S. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Local Government Ethics Programs: A Resource for Ethics Commission Members, Local Officials, Attorneys, Journalists, and Students, and a Manual for Ethics Reform (second edition, c2013), by Robert Wechsler (multiple formats with commentary at cityethics.org)

• New England's Gift to the Nation: The Township, by Arnold Green (page images at MOA)

• Liberal Party Municipal Program for 1945, by Liberal Party of New York State (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Political Organization of the Mbembe, Nigeria (London: H. M. S. O., 1965), by Rosemary Harris (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)

• National Municipal Review (partial serial archives)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• Census of Governments, by United States Bureau of the Census (partial serial archives)

• South Carolina Counties, Districts, Parishes and Townships; Also a List of Tax Collectors for 1765, a List of Justices of The Peace for 1765, a List of Justices of The Peace for 1785 (Columbia, SC: J. Revill, ca. 1945), by Janie Revill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Galveston: A Business Corporation (Topeka City Club reprint from McClure's, 1906), by George Kibbe Turner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)
• The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More for Their Economic Development Dollar (Washington: Good Jobs First; Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, c2007), by Rachel Nicole Weber and David Santacroce (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• About America: How the United States is Governed (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2004), by Paul A. Arnold (PDF at state.gov)

• Decennial Census: Local Government Uses of Housing Data (Briefing report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Census and Population, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, 1987), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alternatives: Proposals for Local Government Struggling with Limited Resources: Excerpts from Essays Submitted to the Harry Singer Foundation, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• 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)
• The Roots of Latino Urban Agency (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2013), ed. by Sharon Ann Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales (PDF at oapen.org)

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

• How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (London: Meatspace Press, 2019), ed. by Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Christine Mattern, and Joe Shaw (multiple formats with commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• The Shame of The Cities (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Lincoln Steffens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dynamic Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill co., c1920), by Arnold Bennett Hall (HTML and page images at Indiana)

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