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

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

• The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (originally published 1982; this edition Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Galen Cranz (PDF files at MIT)

• Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2007), by Kristine F. Miller (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces: A National Street Harassment Report (Reston, VA: Stop Street Harassment, 2014), by Holly Kearl (PDF with commentary at stopstreetharassment.org)

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

• 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)

• The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), by Kristin V. Monroe
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris During the Age of Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Paul Metzner (HTML at UC Press)

• Small Objects from the Pnyx II (Hesperia supplement #10; Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1956), by Lucy Talcott, Barbara Philippaki, G. Roger Edwards, and Virginia Grace (PDF with commentary in Greece)
• Small Objects from the Pnyx I (Hesperia supplement #7; Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 1943), by Gladys Davidson Weinberg and Dorothy Burr Thompson (PDF with commentary in Greece)

• Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v18; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, and Julia Wieger (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v18; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2016), ed. by Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, and Julia Wieger (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), by Robert Rosenberger (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• Making Publics, Making Places (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• 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 (PDF files 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)
• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• 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

• 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 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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.