Lists and classifies without annotation over 20,000 references drawn from decades of issues of Urban History and its predecessor Urban History Yearbook. Following the annual bibliographies, carries academic journal articles, books listed in the British National Bibliography, local history publications, and non-British publications (mostly French and North American). The topical sections cover general works, population, physical structure, social structure, economic structure, transportation and communications, politics and administration, planning and environment, culture, and attitudes to towns and cities. Indexed by place and author. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States. The book is split into sections corresponding to the four main geographic regions of the country, looking respectively at research conducted in the East, South, Midwest and West. The book provides a broad cross section of sources, from books to periodicals and covers a range of interdisciplinary issues such as social theory, urbanization, the growth of the city, ethnicity, socialism and US politics.

This bibliography is a guide to the literature of planning history; that is, the evolution of urban and regional planning as a comprehensive, predictive activity requiring an overall view of the town or region and its structure. Urban and regional planning may be defined as the efforts and activities of public authority to guide the development of land in the interests of economic efficiency and common welfare. Thus the bibliography includes studies from a wide range of geographical areas, although the emphasis is on Western Europe and North America, for it is here that the main development has occurred.