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History of the American City

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Selected Urban History eBooks

Land of Sunshine

Black Public History in Chicago

America's Urban History

A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Urban Green

The Sanitary City

Chicago: An Economic History

Chicago

Whitewashed Adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past

The Hub: Boston Past and Present

A Companion to the American West

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

Garbage in the Cities

Energy Metropolis

Manhattan Phoenix

Lake Effects

The Urban Wilderness

The Black Towns

Dawn of Detroit

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Working Detroit

Policing Los Angeles

City of Inmates

City of Big Shoulders

Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification

Building the City of Spectacle

Urban Revolt

Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934

The Making of the American Creative Class

In the Shadow of Slavery

The Long Crisis

Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States

Finding Books and E-Books

"Finding Books and E-Books," recorded September 2020, 4 minutes.