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Anatomy of a Metropolis: The Changing Distribution of People and Jobs within the New York Metropolitan Region	Hoover, Edgar Malone Vernon, Raymond	E-DITION	1959	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Metropolis 1985: An Interpretation of the Findings of the New York Metropolitan Region Study	Vernon, Raymond	E-DITION	1960	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Myth and Reality of Our Urban Problems	Vernon, Raymond	E-DITION	1962	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Urban Transportation Problem	Meyer, John R. Kain, John F.	E-DITION	1965	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Traffic and the Police: Variations in Law-Enforcement Policy	Gardiner, John A.	E-DITION	1969	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
A Library Classification for City and Regional Planning	Shillaber, Caroline	E-DITION	1973	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790–1840	Pred, Allan R.	E-DITION	1973	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie	Griffen, Clyde Griffen, Sally	E-DITION	1978	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition	Warner, Sam Bass	PAPERBACK	1978	$31.50
Varieties of Police Behavior: The Management of Law and Order in Eight Communities, With a New Preface by the Author	Wilson, James Q.	PAPERBACK	1978	$35.50
Town into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840–1880	Frisch, Michael H.	PAPERBACK	1980	$38.00
Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840–1860	Pred, Allan R.	HARDCOVER	1980	$71.00	Currently unavailable
The Government of Victorian London, 1855–1889: The Metropolitan Board of Works, the Vestries, and the City Corporation	Owen, David MacLeod, Roy	E-DITION	1982	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Neighborhood Politics	Crenson, Matthew A.	E-DITION	1983	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Atlantic City Gamble: A Twentieth Century Fund Report	Sternlieb, George Hughes, James W.	PAPERBACK	1985	$32.00
Looking at Cities	Jacobs, Allan B.	E-DITION	1985	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Province of Reason	Warner, Sam Bass	PAPERBACK	1988	$28.00
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860–1914	Ladd, Brian	HARDCOVER	1990	$67.50
Scarcity by Design: The Legacy of New York City’s Housing Policies	Salins, Peter D. Mildner, Gerard C. S.	E-DITION	1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920	Boyer, Paul	PAPERBACK	1992	$46.50
Aramis, or the Love of Technology	Latour, Bruno	PAPERBACK	1996	$36.00
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness	O'Flaherty, Brendan	PAPERBACK	1998	$35.00
Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945–1975	Wakeman, Rosemary	E-DITION	1998	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925	Connolly, James J.	HARDCOVER	1998	$84.50
Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York	Waldinger, Roger	PAPERBACK	1999	$36.00
Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army	Winston, Diane	PAPERBACK	2000	$18.00
Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed	Gamm, Gerald	PAPERBACK	2001	$43.50
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto	Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi	PAPERBACK	2002	$30.00
Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods	Vale, Lawrence J.	HARDCOVER	2002	$73.50
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity	Dimendberg, Edward	PAPERBACK	2004	$38.00
Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order	Jackall, Robert	PAPERBACK	2005	$26.50
Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America	Lee, Jennifer	PAPERBACK	2006	$29.50
First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920	Adler, Jeffrey S.	HARDCOVER	2006	$37.00
Two Squares	Sarkis, Hashim	PAPERBACK	2006	$19.95	Available ?
Useless to the State: “Social Problems” and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927–1937	Lipkin, Zwia	HARDCOVER	2006	$49.95
From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors	Vale, Lawrence J.	PAPERBACK	2007	$31.50
Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases	Rojas, Eduardo Cuadrado-Roura, Juan R. Güell, José Miguel Fernandez Schineller, Sarah	PAPERBACK	2008	$26.95
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor	Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi	PAPERBACK	2009	$23.50
Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives	Jackall, Robert	PAPERBACK	2009	$23.50
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt	Safford, Sean	HARDCOVER	2009	$41.00
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York	Riis, Jacob A. Warner, Sam Bass	PAPERBACK	2010	$15.50
Negotiating Urban Space: Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing	Fei, Si-yen	HARDCOVER	2010	$45.00
One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China	Whyte, Martin King	PAPERBACK	2010	$33.00
A Turkish Triangle: Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir at the Gates of Europe	Sarkis, Hashim	PAPERBACK	2010	$19.95
Building Cities: Neighbourhood Upgrading and Urban Quality of Life	Rojas, Eduardo	PAPERBACK	2011	$34.95
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America	Muhammad, Khalil Gibran	PAPERBACK	2011	$21.50
Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia	DeStefano, Stephen	PAPERBACK	2011	$21.50
Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh	Grant, Gerald	PAPERBACK	2011	$21.50
The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery	Fash, William L. López Luján, Leonardo	PAPERBACK	2012	$35.00
On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis	Matlin, Daniel	HARDCOVER	2013	$43.50

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