*David R. Goldfield & Blaine A. Brownell
Urban America: From Downtown To No Town (1979)

*Howard P. Chudacoff
The Evolution of American Urban Society (1975)

*Charles N. Glaab & A. Theodore Brown
A History of Urban America (1976)

*Diana Klebanow, Franklin S. Jonas & Ira M. Leonard
Urban Legacy: The Story of America's Cities (1977)

*Blake McKelvey
American Urbanization: A Comparative History (1976)

Zane Miller & Patricia Melvin
The Urbanization of Modern America

Eric H. Monkkonen
America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980 (1988)

Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (1972)

William H. Wilson
Coming of Age: Urban America, 1915-1945 (1974)

THE COLONIAL AND EARLY NATIONAL CITY

*Carl Bridenbaugh
Cities in the Wilderness: Urban Life in America, 1625-1742 (1955)

*Carl Bridenbaugh
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1773-1776 (1955)

*Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh
Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin (1942)

Dora P. Crouch
Spanish City Planning in North America

Constance McLaughlin Green
Washington: Village and Capital (1962)

Raymond A. Mohl
Poverty in New York: 1783-1825 (1971)

William H. Pease & Jane Pease
Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843 (1985)

John W. Reps
The Making of Urban America (1965)

Darret P. Rutman
Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1530-1647 (1965)

*Michael Zuckerman
Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Town in the Eighteenth Century (1970)

TOWN RIVALRY ON THE FRONTIER

James B. Allen
The Company Town in the American West (1966)

*Lewis Atherton
Main Street on the Middle Border (1954)

Wayatt W. Belcher
The Economic Rivalry Between St. Louis and Chicago, 1850-1880 (1947)

*Daniel Boorstin
The National Experience Part 2&3 (1965)

*Robert Dykstra
The Cattle Towns (1968)

Daniel J. Elazar
Cities of the Prairies Revisited: The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier (1986)

Paul W. Gates
The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (1934)

John Hudson
Plains Country Towns (1985)

Lawrence Larsen
Urban West at the End of the Frontier (1978)

Richard C,. Overton
Burlington West: A Colonization History of he Burlington Railroad (1941)

*Duane Smith
Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier (1967)

Arthur J. Vidich & Joseph Bensman
Small Town in Mass Society (1958)

Richard Wade
The Urban Frontier (1959)

Kenneth Wheeler
To Wear a City's Crown: The Beginnings of Urban Growth in Texas, 1836-1965 (1968)

ANTI-URBANISM AND URBAN SYMBOLISM

William L. Bowers
Country Life Movement in America, 1900-1920 (1974)

George Dunlap
The City in the American Novel, 1789-1900 (1965)

Blanche Gelfant
The American City Novel, 1900-1940 (1964)

James L. Machor
Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (1987)

Peter Schmitt
Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America (1969)

Adrienne Siegel
Image of the American City in Popular Literature: 1820-1870 (1981)

Janis P Stout
Sodoms in Eden: The City in American Fiction Before 1860 (1976)

Anselm Strauss
Images of the American City (1961)

*Morton and Lucia White
The Intellectual vs. the City (1962)

THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALISM

*Thomas Bender
Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in 19th Century America (1975)

*Stanley Buder
Pullman (1967)

*Margaret Byington
Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town (1910, reprinted 1974)

Robert F. Dalzell, Jr.
Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World they Made (1987)

John S. Garner
Model Company Town: Urban Design Through Private Enterprise in 19th Century New England (1984)

Paul Henry Landis
Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change

*Ryck Lydecker and Lawrence J. Sommer, eds.
Duluth: Sketches of the Past (1976)

Margaret Parker
Lowell: A Study in Industrial Development (1910)

*James A. Scott
Duluth's Legacy: Architecture (1974)

*Richard Sennett
Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890 (1970)

*Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth (1968)

Louise Wade
Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown & Environs in the 19th Century (1986)

GHETTOES: IMMIGRANTS

*Herbert J. Gans
The Urban Villagers (1962)

*Oscar Handlin
The Uprooted (1051)

*Oscar Handlin
Boston's Immigrants: A Study in Acculturation (1956)

*Oscar Handlin
The Newcomers: Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a Changing Metropolis (1959)

*Thomas Kessner
The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915 (1977)

Oscar Lewis
La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York (1966)

*Humbert S. Nelli
The Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1970)

Thomas Lee Philpott
Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago, 1880-1930 (1978)

*Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives (1890)

*Moses Rischin
The Promised City: New York's Jews (1962)

*Ricardo Romo
East Lost Angeles: History of a Barrio (1988)

GHETTOES: PEOPLE OF COLOR

*Kenneth Clark
Dark Ghetto (1966)

Donald L. Fixico
Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986)

*Constance McLaughlin Green
The Secret City: Race Relations in the Nation's Capital (1967)

*Kenneth T. Jackson
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 (1967)

Kenneth Kusmer
A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 (1975)

*Gilbert Osofsky
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (1966)

*Elliott M. Rudwick
Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (1964)

*Allan H. Spear
Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890- 1920 (1967)

Joe William Trotter
Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1916-45 (1985)

Nancy J. Weiss
The National Urban League, 1910-1940 (1973)

Oliver Zunz
The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization...Detroit, 1880-1920 (1983)

URBAN SOCIAL WELFARE

Edith Abbott
The Tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935 (1936)

*Jane Addams
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910)

*Allen F. Davis
Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914 (1967)

Brian Gratton
Urban Elders: Family, Work and Welfare Among Boston's Aged, 1890-1914 (1967)

*Roy Lubove
The Professional Altruist: The Emergence of Social Work as a Career, 1880-1930 (1965)

Henry R. May
Protestant Churches and Industrial America (1949)

Patricia Mooney Melvin
The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization, 1880-1920 (1987)

David Nasaw
Children of the City: At Work and At Play (1985)

Robert A. Slayton
Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy

Stephen Thernstrom
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 (1973)

Stephen Thernstrom
Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in a 19th Century City (1971)

Judith Ann Trolander
Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (1975)

Judith Ann Trolander
Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present (1987)

URBAN POLITICS AND CITY SERVICES

Paul Barrett
The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (1983)

Roger Biles
Big City Boss in Depression and War: Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago (1984)

*Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975)

*Alexander Callow
The Tweed Ring (1966)

*Lyle Dorsett
The Pendergast Machine (1968)

Paul Keppner
Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor

Judith Walzer Learitt
The Wealthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (1982)

*Seymor Mandelbaum
Boss Tweed's New York (1965)

*Arthur Mann
LaGuardia: A Fighter Against His Times, 1882-1933 (1959)

Martin Melosi
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980 (1981)

Eric H. Mokkonen
Police in Urban America, 1860-1920 (1982)

Bradley Robert Rice
Progressive Cities: The Commission Government Movement in America, 1901-1920 (1977)

James F. Richardson
The New York Police: Colonial Times to 1901 (1970)

*Mike Royko
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971)

*Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities (1904)

*Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan
Bosses in Lusty Chicago (1943)

CITY PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE

Arnold R. Alanen
Main Street Ready-made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin (1987)

Joseph A. Arnold
The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954 (1971)

Paul Barrett
Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (1983)

*M. Christine Boyer
Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning (1983)

David F. Burg
Chicago's White City of 1893 (1976)

Carol A. Christenson
The American Garden City and the New Towns Movement

Pierre Clavel
Progressive City: Planning & Participation, 1969-1987

*Carl Condit
The Chicago School of Architecture (1964)

Carl Condit,
Chicago, 1930-1970: Building, Planning and Urban Technology (1974)

Paul Conkin
Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program (1959)

Galen Cranz
The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America (1982)

Ronald Fogelsong
Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920's (1986)

Mark S. Foster
From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940

Thomas S. Hines
Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner

*Ebenezer Howard
Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902)

*Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

*Roy Lubove
Community Planning in the 1920's: The Contributions of the Regional Planning Association of America (1964)

James F. O'Gorman
H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society (1987)

Frederick Law Olmsted
Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (1970)

John Reps
Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West Before 1890 (1982)

John Reps
The Rise of Urban America: A History of City Planning (1965)

Laura Wood Roper
FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (1973)

Daniel Schaffer
Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience

Daniel Schuyler
The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in 19th Century America (1986)

Mel Scott
American City Planning Since 1890 (1969)

Robert A.M. Stern
Price of Place

John R. Stilgoe
Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845

John R. Stilgoe
Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene

*Christopher Tunnard and Henry H. Reed, Jr.
American Skyline (1953)

Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Streetcar Suburbs

Robert Twombly
Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work (1986)

*Mark A.. Weiss
The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning (1987)

William H. Wilson
City Beautiful Movement (1898)

URBAN RENEWAL AND LOW-INCOME HOUSING

John F. Bauman
Public Housing, Race and Renewal: Urban Planning in Philadelphia, 1920-1974 (1987)

M. Chandler
Urban Homesteading: Programs and Policies (1988)

*Arnold R. Hirsch
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (1983)

*Scott Greer
Urban Renewal and American Cities (1965)

Anthony Jackson
A Place Called Home: A History of Low-Cost Housing in Manhattan (1976)

Jean Lowe
Cities in a Race with Time (1967)

Joseph B. Mason
History of Hosing in the U.S., 1930-1980 (1982)

*Robert C. Weaver
The Urban Complex (1966)

*Robert C. Weaver
Dilemmas of Urban America (1965)

SUBURBIA

Henry C. Binford
The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860 (1985)

*Scott Donaldson
The Suburban Myth (1969)

Michael H. Ebner
Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History (1988)

Robert Fishman
Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987)

*Herbert J. Gans
The Levittowners (1967)

Ann Durkin Keating
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (1988)

Carol A. O'Connor
Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, 1891-1981 (1983)

*J.R. Seeley, R. A. Simm & E. W. Loosley
Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (1956)

Barry Schwartz
Changing Face of the Suburbs (1976)

John R. Stilgoe
Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820- 1939 (1988)

John C. Teaford
City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Metropolitan America, 1850-1970 (1979)

THE SUNBELT AND THE SOUTHERN CITY

Carl Abbott
The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities (1981)

Richard M. Bernard & Bradley R. Rice
Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II

Blaine Brownell
The Urban Ethos in the South, 1920-1930

James C. Cobb
Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development: 1936-1980

Leonard P. Curry
Free Black in Urban America, 1800-1930 (1963)

David R. Goldfield
Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980

Lawrence Larsen
Rise of the Urban South (1985)

Douglas Smith
New Deal in the Urban South (1988)

Richard C. Wade
Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860 (1964)

PERIODICALS