Carl Abbott (urban historian) explained

Carl Abbott
Birth Date:	1944 12, df=yes
Spouse:	Margery Post Abbott^[1]
Website:	The Urban West

Carl Abbott (born December 3, 1944) is an American historian and urbanist, specialising in the related fields of urban history, western American history, urban planning, and science fiction,^[2] and is a frequent speaker to local community groups.

Personal Life

Since 1967 Carl has been married to Margery Post Abbott, a Quaker scholar and teacher.

Academia

He received a BA in history from Swarthmore College (1966) and a PhD from the University of Chicago (1971).^[3] His academic positions have included the University of Denver^[4] (1971–72), Old Dominion University (1972–78),^[5] and Portland State University (1978–2012).^{[6] [7]} He has also held visiting positions at Mesa University, George Washington University,^[8] and the University of Oregon.^[9]

He served as president of the Urban History Association (1995),^[10] has been a member of the American Historical Association since 1982 and served as president of its Pacific Coach Branch from 2012 until 2013.^[11] Other professional service has included co-editorship of the journal of the American Planning Association from 1999 to 2004^[12] and of the Pacific Historical Review from 1997 to 2014.^[13]

Writing

Abbott has authored or co-authored sixteen books. The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993) received the book award of the Urban History Association^[14] and Political Terrain: Washington D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999) received the book award of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. He has also published many scholarly articles, chapters, and reviews^[15] as well as shorter essays for general readers on his website.^[16]

Abbott is also active in fields of public history, working with Portland's Architectural Heritage Center, The Oregon Encyclopedia,^[17] the Oregon Historical Society, and other organizations and is an advocate of community-based history.

Works

• Colorado: The History of the Centennial State. Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder 1976. Fifth edition 2013 (with Stephen Leonard and Tom Noel): University of Colorado Press, Boulder 2013, .
• The Great Extravaganza: Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Oregon Historical Society, Portland 1981, .
• Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1981, .
• The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities. University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Revised edition 1987, .
• Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth Century City. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE 1983, .
• Urban America in the Modern Age, 1920 to Present. H. Davidson, Arlington Heights IL 1987. 2nd edition 2007, .
• The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1993, .
• Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (with Sy Adler and Margery Post Abbott). Oregon State University Press, Corvallis 1997. .
• Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1999, .
• Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2001, .
• Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark: Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery (with William L. Lang). Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland 2004, .
• Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence KS 2006, .
• How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 2008, .
• Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis 2011.
• Imagined Frontiers: Contemporary America and Beyond. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2015,
• Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2016.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vogdes. Elizabeth. A Convergence of Friends – Swarthmore College Bulletin. Swarthmore College Bulletin. March 25, 2017. July 2013.
2. Web site: AHA Member Spotlight: Carl Abbott. Historians.org. American Historical Association. March 25, 2017. March 19, 2014.
3. Web site: Profile. www.pdx.edu. Portland State University. March 25, 2017. March 29, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329141644/https://www.pdx.edu/profile/meet-professor-carl-abbott. dead.
4. Book: Thomas J.. Noel. Carl. Abbott. Stephen J.. Leonard. Colorado: A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition: A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition. 18 May 2011. University Press of Colorado. 978-1-4571-0955-3. March 26, 2017.
5. News: Carl Abbott Papers. Special Collections of the Old Dominion University Libraries. Dominion University Library. 1958–1977. March 27, 2017.
6. Web site: Abbott. Carl. Political Terrain. University of North Carolina Press. March 27, 2017.
7. Web site: Carl Abbott. LinkedIn. March 28, 2017.
8. Book: Carl. Abbott. Virginia Dejohn. Anderson. The American Journey: A History of the United States. 1 July 2000. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-088245-5. March 26, 2017. Blurb on Google Books.
9. Community Events. The Weekly Bulletin. January 15, 2017. University of Oregon. 3. March 27, 2017. March 29, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329141404/https://www.fgcquaker.org/system/files/cloud_attachments/Jan_15_2017_weekly_bulletin.pdf. dead.
10. Web site: Past Leadership. www.urbanhistory.org. Urban History Association. March 25, 2017.
11. Web site: Abbott. Carl. How Scanners Democratize History. www.historians.org. March 28, 2017. American Historical Association.
12. Web site: Editors of the Journal of the American Planning Association and its predecessors. TandF.co.uk. Taylor & Francis Group. March 25, 2017. March 29, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329232050/http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/biogs/RJPA_Editors.pdf. dead.
13. Front Matter. (2012). Pacific Historical Review, 81(4), I-X. doi:10.1525/phr.2012.81.4.fm. Accessed via jstor on March 26, 2017.
14. Web site: Past Awards. www.urbanhistory.org. Urban History Association. March 25, 2017.
15. Web site: PDXScholar search: "Carl Abbott". pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu. Portland State University Library. March 25, 2017.
16. Web site: Carl. Abbott. The Urban West. theurbanwest.com. March 25, 2017.
17. Web site: Authors of the Oregon Encyclopedia. The Oregon Encyclopedia. March 25, 2017. January 20, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170120230923/https://oregonencyclopedia.org/authors/. dead.