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• 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
• The Municipal Year Book (first and only issue we know of for this series; New York: Engineering News Pub. Co., 1902), ed. by M. N. Baker (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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The American City (partial serial archives)

• The Alabama Municipal Journal (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati, 1819-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Alan I Marcus (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Plague of Strangers: Social Groups and the Origins of City Services in Cincinnati, 1819-1870 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Alan I Marcus (PDF at Ohio State)

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

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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)
• 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)

• Notes (Municipal Reference and Research Center, New York) (partial serial archives)

• Municipal World (partial serial archives)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• National Municipal Review (partial serial archives)
• Municipal World (partial serial archives)

• Bombay Act No. III of 1901: The Bombay District Municipal Act, 1901, As Modified Up to the 1st September 1907 (Bombay: Govt. Cent. Press, 1907), by Bombay (Presidency)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Charter of the City of East Saginaw, by Saginaw (Michigan) (page images at MOA)

• The City Manager Plan of Municipal Government (New York: National Short Ballot Organization, 1913), contrib. by Charles A. Beard (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Direct Elections and Law-Making by Popular Vote: The Initiative, the Referendum, the Recall, Commission Government for Cities, Preferential Voting (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Edwin M. Bacon and Morrill Wyman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

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