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• Urbanization -- California
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• Urbanization -- Egypt
• Urbanization -- Environmental aspects
• Urbanization -- Europe
• Urbanization -- History
• Urbanization -- Middle West
• Urbanization -- New York (State)
• Urbanization -- United States
• City churches
• Urban health

• Cities and towns, Movement to
• Urban development
• Urban systems

• The Urban Planet: Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, Timon McPhearson, Sue Parnell, Patricia Romero Lankao, David Simon, and Mark Watkins (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities (c2013), ed. by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter Marcotullio, Robert Ian McDonald, Sue Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, and Cathy Wilkinson (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

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

• Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), by Farha Ghannam (HTML at UC Press)

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

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

• Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life, by Stephen Allen Bemis (HTML at LOC)
• "Both Sides Told," or, Southern California As It Is, by Mary C. Vail (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of California (1925 magazine edition), by Frederick A. Gay (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California, by Mrs. J. W. Likins (HTML at LOC)
• A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California., by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)
• To and Fro in Southern California, by Emma H. Adams (HTML at LOC)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.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)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c1999), by Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• 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)

• 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)

• Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (partial serial archives)

• Health, United States, by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of the Newark Baptist City Mission From Its Origin in 1851 to Its Seventeenth Anniversary in 1868, by Edgar Mortimer Levy (page images at MOA)

• Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Katrina Smith Korfmacher (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

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

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Gutenberg text)

• A Century of Negro Migration, by Carter Godwin Woodson (Gutenberg text)

• Our Digital Rights to the City (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Thrilling Cities (c1963), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)

• Belgian Democracy: Its Early History, by Henri Pirenne, trans. by J. V. Saunders (PDF at McMaster)

• Canadian Cities of Romance (New York: George H. Doran, c1922), by Katherine Hale, illust. by Dorothy Stevens (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)

• Old English Towns (combined edition of earlier 2 volumes; London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1909), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old English Towns (New York: F. A. Stokes, ca. 1912), by William Andrews and Elsie M. Lang
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Town Life in the Fifteenth Century (2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Alice Stopford Green
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text

• Seven English Cities, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History (1890), by Charles Gross
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

• Probestücke von Städtemauern des Alten Griechenlands (in German; Munich et al.: J. G. Cotta, 1831), by William Gell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)
• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of Cities, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

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