| The search for the ultimate sink: urban pollution in historical perspective JA Tarr The University of Akron Press, 1996 | 902* | 1996 |
| Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America G Dupuy, JA Tarr Temple University Press, 1988 | 457 | 1988 |
| The horse in the city: living machines in the nineteenth century C McShane, J Tarr JHU Press, 2007 | 430 | 2007 |
| The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh JA Tarr Journal of Urban History 28 (5), 511-545, 2002 | 197 | 2002 |
| The evolution of the urban infrastructure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries JA Tarr Perspectives on urban infrastructure, 4-66, 1984 | 189 | 1984 |
| At the intersection of histories: technology and the environment JK Stine, JA Tarr Technology and culture 39 (4), 601-640, 1998 | 179 | 1998 |
| Water and wastes: A retrospective assessment of wastewater technology in the United States, 1800–1932 JA Tarr, J McCurley III, FC McMichael, T Yosie Technology and Culture 25 (2), 226-263, 1984 | 179 | 1984 |
| The importance of an urban perspective in environmental history CM Rosen, JA Tarr Journal of Urban History 20 (3), 299-310, 1994 | 173 | 1994 |
| Devastation and renewal: an environmental history of Pittsburgh and its region JA Tarr University of Pittsburgh Pre, 2004 | 134 | 2004 |
| The separate vs. combined sewer problem: a case study in urban technology design choice JA Tarr Journal of Urban History 5 (3), 308-339, 1979 | 125 | 1979 |
| Ownership and financing of infrastructure: Historical perspectives C Jacobson, J Tarr Available at SSRN 604979, 1995 | 109 | 1995 |
| A Study in boss politics: William Lorimer of Chicago JA Tarr (No Title), 1971 | 85 | 1971 |
| The city and the telegraph: urban telecommunications in the pre-telephone era JA Tarr, T Finholt, D Goodman Journal of Urban History 14 (1), 38-80, 1987 | 76 | 1987 |
| From city to farm: urban wastes and the American farmer JA Tarr Agricultural history 49 (4), 598-612, 1975 | 70 | 1975 |
| Four Dacades of Public-Private Partnerships in Pittsburgh S Stewman Public-Private Partnerships in American Cities: Seven Case Studies, 1982 | 68 | 1982 |
| Urban pollution: many long years ago JA Tarr American Heritage Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1971 | 66 | 1971 |
| Patterns in the Development of the Urban Infrastructure JW Konvitz, JA Tarr Greenwood Press, 1987 | 65 | 1987 |
| The centrality of the horse in the nineteenth-century American City C McShane, JA Tarr The making of urban America, 105-130, 1997 | 63 | 1997 |
| Coal, smoke, and death: bituminous coal and American home heating A Barreca, K Clay, J Tarr National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Sewerage and the Development of the Networked City in the United States, 1850-1930 JA Tarr Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America, 159-185, 1988 | 58 | 1988 |
