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

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• 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)

• Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2018), by Anne Rademacher (PDF files at Project MUSE)

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

• Crisis in the Built Environment: The Case of the Muslim City (1988), by Jamel A. Akbar (PDF at archnet.org)

• Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v20; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2017), ed. by Anamarija Batista, Szilvia Kovács, and Carina Lesky (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Urban Land (published by the Urban Land Institute since the 1940s; articles from 2010 onward online) (partial serial archives)

• Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles (Washington: United States Housing Authority, 1940), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States (Washington: G. P. O., 1935), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Recent Trends in American Housing (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Famine, How to End It: A Triangular Debate, by John J. Murphy, Edith Elmer Wood, and Frederick Lee Ackerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Housing Problem in War and Peace (1918), by Charles Harris Whitaker, Frederick Lee Ackerman, Richard S. Childs, and Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Homes for Old: Public Housing in Europe and America (Headline Books #22; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1939), by William V. Reed and Elizabeth Ogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Edith Elmer Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Oonagh McDonald (HTML with commentary at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: A Report to Secretary Shaun Donovan (2009), by Penn Institute for Urban Research (PDF here at Penn)
• Studies on Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1996), by United States General Accounting Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, United States Department of the Treasury, and United States Congressional Budget Office (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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