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• 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)

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

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)

• Careers in City Politics: The Case for Urban Democracy (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1993), by Timothy Bledsoe (page images at Pitt)

• Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by William E. Nelson and Philip J. Meranto (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1978), by Harold H. Martin (PDF at Georgia)

• William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1978), by Harold H. Martin (PDF at Georgia)

• My Story (1911), by Tom Loftin Johnson, ed. by Elizabeth J. Hauser (HTML at clevelandmemory.org)
• Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography, by Carl Stokes (HTML with commentary at clevelandmemory.org)

• My Story (1911), by Tom Loftin Johnson, ed. by Elizabeth J. Hauser (HTML at clevelandmemory.org)

• Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography, by Carl Stokes (HTML with commentary at clevelandmemory.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• Lessons from New American Schools' Scale-Up Phase: Prospects for Bringing Designs to Multiple Schools, by Susan J. Bodilly (PDF files at rand.org)

• 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)

• 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)
• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Land Use (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, c2012), by Christian Turner (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)

• The Code of the City of Montgomery: Prepared in Pursuance of an Order of the City Council of Montgomery (Montgomery, AL: Gaines and Smith, 1861), by Montgomery (Ala.), ed. by John W. A. Sanford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook for the City Governing Body: Cities of the Third Class (third edition, c1959), by League of Kansas Municipalities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Forms of Municipal Government (1992), by New Jersey State Commission on County and Municipal Government (PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org)

• Urban Operations Research (online edition, 1999), by Richard C. Larson and Amedeo R. Odoni (illustrated HTML at MIT)
• Local Problems, Libertarian Solutions (1978), by William D. Burt (illustrated HTML at amatecon.com)

• Federal Response to Domestic Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction-Training for First Responders: Hearing Before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held March 21, 1998 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on National Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Modern Forms of Municipal Government (1992), by New Jersey State Commission on County and Municipal Government (PDF files with commentary at njstatelib.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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