Penn's plan for Philadelphia (Instructions to his commissioners, 1681)
Penn's disappointment (Letter to associates, March 7, 1697)
Goals of Washington's planner (Pierre L'Enfant to Thomas Jefferson, April 4, 1791)
Modifications of the Washington plan (Nicholas King to Thomas Jefferson, September 25, 1803)
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush on cities
De Tocqueville on the American city
De Witt Clinton on the Erie Canal, C.1825
The Andrews report on transportation and cities, 1853
The Griscom Report on New York, 1845
The growth of Lowell, Henry A. Miles, 1846
The Merrimack River Valley, Charles Cowley, 1856
Frederick Law Olmsted on the public park movement, 1870
The slums of New York, 1857
B. O. Flower on the slums of Boston, 1893
The Barbary Coast of San Francisco, 1876
B. O. Flower on Boston's democracy of darkness, 1893
Chauncey Thomas on the utopian city
Lincoln Steffens on municipal government, 1904
Boss George Washington Plunkitt on city politics
Reports of the Urbanism Committee of the National Resources Committee, 1937-39.
