Carl Abbott

Carl John Abbott (born December 3, 1944 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) is an American historian and urbanist.

Abbott studied at Swarthmore College ( BA 1966) and at the University of Chicago ( MA 1967; Ph.D. 1971). He began teaching in 1971 as an assistant professor at the University of Denver . From 1972 to 1978 he taught at Old Dominion University , from 1978 until today at the Department of Urban Studies at Portland State University . His research focus is American urban history , especially that of the West and Midwest.

Works

• Colorado: The History of the Centennial State . Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder 1976. 5, expanded edition (with Stephen Leonard and Tom Noell): University of Colorado Press, Boulder 2013, ISBN 9781607322269 .
• The Great Extravaganza: Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition . Oregon Historical Society, Portland 1981, ISBN 0875950884 .
• Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1981, ISBN 0313225621 .
• The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities . University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 2nd, Revised Edition 1987, ISBN 0807841803 .
• Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth Century City . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE 1983, ISBN 0803210086 .
• Urban America in the Modern Age, 1920 to Present . H. Davidson, Arlington Heights IL 1987. 2nd expanded edition 2007, ISBN 9780882952475 .
• The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1993, ISBN 0816511292 .
• Political Terrain: Washington, DC, from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1999, ISBN 080782478X .
• Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0812236122 .
• (with William L. Lang et al.): Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark: Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery . Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland 2004, ISBN 0875952887 .
• Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West . University Press of Kansas, Lawrence KS 2006, ISBN 0700614303 .
• How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America . University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2008, ISBN 9780826333148 .

Web links

• The Urban West - Author's official website