• Gebaut—Erste Bauten Berliner Architekten / Built—First Commissions of Berlin Architects (Berlin: Architektenkammer Berlin, 1995)
• Collecting Cities—Images from Patrick Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition (Glasgow: Collins Gallery, 1999)
• Biopolis—Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 2002; 2003 paperback edition)
• Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of Modern Bourgeois Home (Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2012)

Books (edited and co-edited)

• Christoph Fischer and Volker Welter (authors, eds.), Frühlicht in Beton. Das Erbbegräbnis Wissinger von Max Taut and Otto Freundlich in Stahnsdorf. Geschichte und Hintergründe der Entstehung. Dokumentation der Restaurierung (The Wissinger family grave by Max Taut and Otto Freundlich in Stahnsdorf. History and background of its origin. Documentation of the restoration 1987/89) (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1989)
• The Papers of Sir Patrick Geddes, ed. by James McGrath, Samantha Searle and Volker M. Welter, 6 vols (Glasgow: Strathclyde University Archives, 1999)
• The City after Patrick Geddes, ed. by Volker M. Welter and James Lawson (Bern: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2000)
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