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• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Kian Tajbakhsh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• 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)

• Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets (Washington: World Bank and International Finance Corporation, 2002), by Stoyan Tenev, Chunlin Zhang, and Loup Berfort (PDF at worldbank.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat (1982), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • Volume I (Case Studies): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume II (Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org

• Down with the Cities!, by Nakashima Tadashi (Gutenberg text)

• 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

• Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Robert I. Levy (HTML at UC Press)

• 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 with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), ed. by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Housing: Process and Physical Form, ed. by Linda Safran (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Changing Rural Habitat (1982), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor
  • Volume I (Case Studies): PDF at archnet.org
  • Volume II (Background Papers): PDF at archnet.org

• Reading the Contemporary African City (1983), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF at archnet.org)

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

• Reading the Contemporary African City (1983), ed. by Brian Brace Taylor (PDF at archnet.org)

• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure (1984), ed. by Royce Hanson (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• La Multiple Splendeur (in French; Paris: Societe du Mercure de France, 1907), by Emile Verhaeren (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

• Community-Led Regeneration: A Toolkit for Residents and Planners (London: UCL Press, c2020), by Pablo Sendra and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • HTML and PDF files at Project Muse

• 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)

• Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2014), ed. by Philip Harrison, Graeme Götz, A. Todes, and Chris Wray (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2014), ed. by Philip Harrison, Graeme Götz, A. Todes, and Chris Wray (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Deep Mapping the Media City (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Shannon Christine Mattern (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Tales of City Life, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard O. Davies (PDF at Ohio State)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Future of National Urban Policy (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Marshall Kaplan and Franklin J. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Community and Quality of Life: Data Needs for Informed Decision Making (2002), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Cultural District for Downtown Atlanta (Atlanta: Rearch Atlanta, c2000), by Arthur C. Brooks and Roland Kushner (page images at GSU)

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

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

• An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit (12 volumes; 1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume 1 (Summary): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 2 (Atlanta Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 3 (Boston Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 4 (Chicago Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 5 (Denver Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 6 (Los Angeles Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 7 (Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 8 (San Francisco Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 9 (Seattle Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 10 (Washington, DC Case Study): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 11 (Technical Report): PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume 12 (Bibliography): PDF files at Princeton

• 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)

• 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)
• Degeneration Amongst Londoners (1885), by James Cantlie (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• Peyton Place (author died in 1964; c1956), by Grace Metalious (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ulysses, by James Joyce (multiple editions)
• Antic Hay (London: Chatto and Windus, c1923), by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Harry Franco: A Tale of the Great Panic (New York: F. Saunders, 1839), by Charles F. Briggs
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern
• Anna of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg tex)
• The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Conquest of Canaan, by Booth Tarkington
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: The Page Company, 1920), by L. M. Montgomery
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Heart's Desire: The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1915), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Norman Rockwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• With the Procession, by Henry Blake Fuller (Gutenberg text)
• Not Without Laughter (London and New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930), by Langston Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Bedlam's Edge (included on a Baen CD image), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• The Calling of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (London: Methuen and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Cock and Anchor (London: Downey and Co., ca.1895), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Denry the Audacious (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, contrib. by Irving Howe (Gutenberg text)
• Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Sherwood Anderson (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories, by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (Gutenberg text)
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Tales of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• 1632, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)

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