1. Abler, Ronald F., Adams, John S., and Lee, Ki-Suk, editors, 1976, A Comparative Atlas of America's Great Cities; Twenty Metropolitan Regions. Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota Press, Association of American Geographers, Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project, Vol. 3.
2. Adams, Carolyn T., 1988, The Politics of Capital Investment: The Case of Philadelphia . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
3. Adams, John S., editor, 1976a, Urban Policy Making and Metropolitan Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, Association of American Geographers, Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project, Vol. 2.
4. Adams, John S., editor, 1976b, Contemporary Metropolitan America: Twenty Geographical Vignettes. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, Association of American Geographers, Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project, Vol. 1, 4 parts (some individual metropolitan areas also published separately in paperback editions).
5. Adams, John S., editor, 1987, Housing America in the 1980s . New York: Russell Sage Foundation.