| The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne G Davison Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2014 | 600 | 2014 |
| The use and abuse of Australian history G Davison | 343 | 2000 |
| Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities GJ Davison Allen & Unwin, 2004 | 271 | 2004 |
| The Oxford companion to Australian history G Davison, J Hirst, S Macintyre Oxford University Press, 1998 | 235 | 1998 |
| A heritage handbook G Davison, C McConville (No Title), 1991 | 200 | 1991 |
| The past & future of the Australian suburb G Davison Australian Planner 31 (2), 63-69, 1993 | 145 | 1993 |
| Australia: the first suburban nation? G Davison Journal of Urban History 22 (1), 40-74, 1995 | 136 | 1995 |
| The Unforgiving Minute: How Australians learned to tell the time G Davison Oxford University Press, 1993 | 121 | 1993 |
| Heritage: From patrimony to pastiche G Davison The heritage reader 35, 2008 | 104 | 2008 |
| The outcasts of Melbourne: Essays in social history G Davison Routledge, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| The meanings of heritage G Davison A heritage handbook, 1-13, 1991 | 89 | 1991 |
| The city as a natural system: theories of urban society in early nineteenth-century Britain G Davison The pursuit of urban history, 349-370, 1983 | 77 | 1983 |
| The city-bred child and urban reform in Melbourne 1900–1940 G Davison Social process and the city, 143-174, 2019 | 69 | 2019 |
| Rural sustainability in historical perspective G Davison Sustainability and change in rural Australia 53, 2005 | 63 | 2005 |
| A brief history of the Australian heritage movement G Davison A heritage handbook, 14-27, 1991 | 63 | 1991 |
| Down the gurgler: Historical influences on Australian domestic water consumption G Davison Troubled waters: Confronting the water crisis in Australia’s cities, 37-65, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| City dreamers: the urban imagination in Australia G Davison NewSouth, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
| Carlton and the campus: the university and the gentrification of inner Melbourne 1958–75 G Davison Urban Policy and Research 27 (3), 253-264, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| The cream brick frontier: histories of Australian suburbia G Davison, S O'Hanlon Monash Publications in History, Department of History, Monash University, 1995 | 55 | 1995 |
| The suburban idea and its enemies G Davison Journal of urban history 39 (5), 829-847, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
