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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Carl Abbott is an American historian and urbanist, specialising in the related fields of urban history, western American history, urban planning, and science fiction, and is a frequent speaker to local community groups. Since 1967 he has been married to Margery Post Abbott, a Quaker scholar and teacher.

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Towards an Urban Renaissance (2000) (146)
Facilitating innovation in construction (2010) (109)
Integration and Leadership as Enablers of Innovation in Construction: Case Study (2014) (95)
The Portland region: Where city and suburbs talk to each other—and often agree (1997) (75)
Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (2001) (73)
A river and its city : the nature of landscape in New Orleans (2003) (68)
Planning the Oregon Way: A Twenty-Year Evaluation (1994) (68)
Imagining Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: Planning Regulation as Cultural Icon (2008) (51)
Five Downtown Strategies: Policy Discourse and Downtown Planning Since 1945 (1993) (49)
Historical Analysis as a Planning Tool (1989) (47)
Hidden innovation in the construction and property sectors (2007) (46)
Knowledge management in construction supply chain integration (2010) (44)
PLANNING A SUSTAINABLE CITY: THE PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE OF PORTLAND'S URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY. IN: URBAN SPRAWL: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY RESPONSES (2002) (40)
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (review) (2003) (40)
Integrating BIM and GIS for large-scale facilities asset management: a critical review (2009) (37)
nD modelling road map : A vision for nD-Enabled construction (2005) (35)
Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West (1981) (30)
Urban design in Portland, Oregon, as policy and process: 1960–1989 (1991) (27)
Urban America: From Downtown to No Town (1979) (24)
Cyberpunk Cities (2007) (21)
The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850–1915 (2001) (21)
Construction in year 2030: developing an information technology vision (2010) (21)
Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century (1992) (20)
The American City: A Social and Cultural History (2000) (19)
Integrating BIM and GIS for large scale ( building ) asset management : a critical review (2009) (18)
The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon by Robert D. Johnston (2004) (18)
Construction IT in 2030: a scenario planning approach (2009) (17)
Mormons and Gentiles: A History of Salt Lake City Thomas G. Alexander James B. Allen (1986) (17)
Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People (2011) (17)
Challenging the illusion of the all powerful clients' role in driving innovation (2008) (16)
A quiet counterrevolution in land use regulation: The origins and impact of Oregon's measure 7 (2003) (15)
Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them (2016) (14)
Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (1997) (14)
Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999) (14)
Thinking about Cities (1996) (12)
Voices from the Street: Truths about Homelessness from Sisters of the Road by Jessica Morrell (2008) (12)
Conquering the Rivers: Henry Miller Shreve and the Navigation of America's Inland Waterways (1986) (12)
To what Extent is Electricity Central to Resilience and Disaster Management of the Built Environment (2014) (11)
Portland, Gateway to the Northwest (1985) (11)
Adoption of sustainable retrofit in UK social housing 2010-2015 (2017) (11)
Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C. By Margaret E. Farrar. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. viii, 183 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03227-1.) (2008) (11)
The Great Extravaganza: Portland and the Lewis and Clark Exposition (2004) (11)
Portland's changing landscape (1987) (10)
Historical Development of the Metropolitan Service District (1991) (10)
Dimensions of Regional Change in Washington, D.C. (1990) (10)
Achieving sustainability in construction through the specialist task organisation procurement approach (2009) (9)
The Politics of Land-Use Law in Oregon: Senate Bill 100, Twenty Years After (1993) (9)
The Suburban Sunbelt (1987) (9)
City profile: Portland, Oregon (2002) (9)
The Light on the Horizon (2006) (9)
Homesteading on the Extraterrestrial Frontier (2005) (8)
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 Arnold R. Hirsch Special Districts, Special Purposes: Fringe Governments and Urban Problems in the Houston Area Virginia Marion Perrenod (1986) (8)
Urban History for Planners (2006) (8)
College Athletic Conferences and American Regions (1990) (8)
Facilitating innovation: the role of the centre for construction innovation (2005) (8)
What's on the Horizon for Oregon Planners? (2004) (8)
Reading Urban History (1994) (7)
Falling into History: The Imagined Wests of Kim Stanley Robinson in the “Three Californias” and Mars Trilogies (2003) (7)
DESIGN, PROCESS, AND SERVICE INNOVATIONS TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY (2011) (7)
Urban America in the modern age, 1920 to present (2006) (7)
The role of innovation circles in stimulating innovation in small construction firms (2007) (6)
The International City Hypothesis (1997) (6)
The Internationalization of Washington, D.C. (1996) (6)
To Boldly Go Where No Data Have Gone Before (1993) (5)
Rocky Mountain Refuge: Constructing "Colorado" in Science Fiction (2012) (5)
The Metropolitan Frontier (1993) (5)
The Plank Road Enthusiasm in the Antebellum Middle West (1971) (5)
COLONIAL PLACE, NORFOLK: RESIDENTIAL INTEGRATION IN A SOUTHERN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD (1979) (5)
ApRemodel: A Study of Non-Technical Innovation in Multi- Occupancy Sustainable Retrofit Housing Projects (2012) (5)
Cyberpunk cities: science fic tion meets urban theory (2007) (5)
Utopia and Bureaucracy: The Fall of Rajneeshpuram, Oregon (1990) (5)
Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000: Washington and Berlin: National Capitals in a Networked World (2005) (5)
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2014) (5)
Drivers for innovation in production management (2006) (5)
Care of the bereaved. (1981) (4)
Too High & Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography. By David B. Williams. (2016) (4)
Regulation and innovation in new build housing : insights into the adoption and diffusion of micro-generation technologies (2015) (4)
New West, New South, New Region: The Discovery of the Sunbelt (1988) (4)
Necessary Adjuncts to Its Growth: The Railroad Suburbs of Chicago (1980) (4)
Urbanism and Environment in Portland's Sense of Place (2004) (4)
Action learning as an enabler for successful technology transfer with construction SMEs (2007) (4)
Phoenix in the twentieth century : essays in community history (1994) (4)
"Beautiful Downtown Burbank" : Changing metropolitan geography in the modern West (1995) (4)
Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning: The Case of Washington, D.C., Since 1880 (1989) (4)
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN SUPPORTING THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (2001) (3)
United States Regional History as an Instructional Field: The Practice of College and University History Departments (1990) (3)
Greater Portland: Experiments with Professional Planning, 1905-1925 (1985) (3)
Settlement Patterns in the Portland Region: A Historical Overview (1994) (3)
A Brief Portrait of Multimodal Transportation Planning in Oregon and the Path to Achieving It, 1890-1974 (2010) (3)
A History of Metro (1991) (3)
A Diverse People (2013) (3)
How cities won the West (2008) (3)
Redefining Quaker Simplicity: The Friends Committee on National Legislation Building, 2005 (2008) (3)
Portland in Three Centuries (2011) (3)
Cornerstones of Community: Buildings of Portland's African American History (1995) (3)
Scenario planning: a glance at the history (2009) (3)
The Everyday City: Portland's Changing Neighborhoods (1987) (3)
Popular Economic Thought and Occupational Structure (1975) (3)
Urbanizing the Sunbelt (2003) (2)
Plural Society in Colorado: Ethnic Relations in the Twentieth Century. (1978) (2)
City Planning: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (2)
Portland Civic Culture and Civic Opportunity (2001) (2)
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles (review) (2005) (2)
Plank Roads and Wood-block Pavements (1981) (2)
Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 Martin V. Melosi (1982) (2)
Critical review of the success factors of strategic alliances in the UK construction industry (2017) (2)
The American Journey (1998) (2)
Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2001) (1)
WHAT ARE THE KEY TURNING POINTS IN FEMALE CAREER PROGRESSION? THE CASE OF A SENIOR MANAGER IN A SMALL CONSTRUCTION FIRM (2007) (1)
The Location and External Appearance of Mrs. Trollope's Bazaar (1970) (1)
Our Cities and The City: incompatible classics? (2012) (1)
Ethnic Minorities in Portland: A 1990 Census Profile (1991) (1)
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities David L. A. Gordon (Ed.) (2009) (1)
Community by Design: The Olmsted Form and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts by Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed (review) (2015) (1)
"To Arouse Interest in the Outdoors" : The Literary Career of Enos Mills (1981) (1)
Prevalence of compassion fatigue and burnout in behavioral health workers (2009) (1)
Metropolitan Portland: Reputations and Reality (1994) (1)
Planning a Healthy City: Progress and Challenges in Portland, Oregon (2015) (1)
ACTION LEARNING AS AN ENABLER FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (2007) (1)
From Urban Frontier to Metropolitan Region: Oregon's Cities from 1870 to 2008 (2009) (1)
A Brief History of Our Future: A Historian Imagines Our City in 2033 (2003) (1)
Jim Rockford or Tony Soprano: Coastal Contrasts in American Suburbia (2014) (1)
West by Southeast: Peter Matthiessen's Florida Trilogy as Western Fiction (2012) (1)
Professional Sports and Sunbelt Cities (2003) (1)
Planning a Sustainable Portland: A Digital Library for Local, Regional, and State Planning and Policy Documents (2005) (1)
The Urban West and the Twenty-First Century (1993) (1)
Indianapolis: Hoosiers' Circle City by George W. Geib (1982) (1)
Metropolitan Briefing Book, 1997 (1997) (1)
Editorial for special issue on knowledge exchange and innovation in university city-regions (2015) (1)
The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster (2015) (1)
The New Urban Frontier: Urbanisation and City-Building in Australasia and the American West Lionel Frost (1992) (1)
Colorado: A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition (2013) (1)
Cities and Communities: (2022) (1)
Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare Roger W. Lotchin (1993) (0)
Quakerism (2020) (0)
Quakerism: The Basics (2020) (0)
Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Robert Alan Goldberg (1983) (0)
The Era of the Booster (2013) (0)
Convergence or purity (2020) (0)
Making a Place for Politics (2002) (0)
Circular Motion Movement at the crossroads (2001) (0)
Michael J. Deer, H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise (eds), Rethinking Los Angeles. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1996. xiv + 278pp. 16 plates. 6 maps. 8 figures. 14 tables. $58.00 hbk, $26.95 pbk. (1998) (0)
IT self-assessment for SMEs in the UK construction industry (2002) (0)
Science Fiction Cities (2013) (0)
Symposium The Future of the Ceremonial City: A Third Century of Planning for Washington, D.C. (2002) (0)
Farming and Ranching in the American Desert (2013) (0)
Modern Times (1987) (0)
Mountains and Plains (2013) (0)
New Mexico's Northern Frontier (2013) (0)
Building Western Cities: A Review Essay (1984) (0)
PRESENTING CASE STUDIES OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AUDIENCE (2007) (0)
Review of The American Far West in the Twentieth Century. By Earl Pomeroy (2009) (0)
Introduction: Portland's Historical Personality (2001) (0)
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston (review) (2011) (0)
Integrating Information Accross Construction Supply Chain Using nD Modelling (2008) (0)
Heather Fryer. Perimeters of Democracy: Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West. (2013) (0)
7. Unnatural disasters and resilient cities (2020) (0)
Pacific Visions (Special Edition) (2014) (0)
The I nternationalization of Washington, D.C. (1996) (0)
4. Contested communities (2020) (0)
Lives led by the spirit (2020) (0)
5. Metropolis and megaregion (2020) (0)
Frontier Imagination (2019) (0)
6. Nature in the city (2020) (0)
Review: Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West by Susan Kollin (2016) (0)
Cuts on the Bias (2006) (0)
Planning A Healthy City (2015) (0)
Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture Gideon Bosker Lena Lencek (1987) (0)
The Great Extravaganza (1981) (0)
The Active Force: Enos A. Mills and the National Park Movement (1979) (0)
Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning by John W. Reps (1980) (0)
Thanks to the Referees (2005) (0)
Alabaster Cities: Urban U.S. since 1950 (review) (2011) (0)
The First Coloradans (2013) (0)
The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City by John D. Fairfield (2011) (0)
Urban Center Plaza (2014) (0)
Suburb and City: Changing Patterns of Socioeconomic Status in Metropolitan Denver Since 1940 (1977) (0)
Ministry, mission, and testimony (2020) (0)
Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon, 1850-1950 William J. Hawkins William F. Willingham (2001) (0)
Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire (2013) (0)
From Downtown Plan to Central City Summit: Trends in Portland's Central City, 1970-1998 (1998) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
A peculiar and contradictory people (2020) (0)
Also available from Wiley Blackwell (2014) (0)
THE PATIENT'S JOURNEY THROUGH COPD TREATMENT (2021) (0)
The facadism fad: is it preservation? (1984) (0)
Beyond the Fringe (2016) (0)
Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930. By Terence Young and The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. By Hal K. Rothman (2005) (0)
Future of construction: scenarios for year 2030 (2010) (0)
Transformed: How Oregon's Public Health University Won Independence and Healed Itself by William Graves (2017) (0)
Cultural and Political Wars (2013) (0)
A danger to the nation (2020) (0)
Regional Diversity: Growth in the United States, 1960–1990. By Gregory Jackson, George Masnick, Roger Bolton, Susan Bartlett, and John Pitkin. Boston, Auburn House Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. xviii + 198. $19.95, cloth; $12.00, paper (1982) (0)
To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal by Julia L. Foulkes (2012) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Nohad Toulan: The University in the City (2014) (0)
The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati by Carl W. Condit (1977) (0)
Plotting a path to a more sustainable future (2020) (0)
Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 19402000. By William G. Robbins (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004) 414 pp. $35.00 (2007) (0)
Greenscapes: Olmstead's Pacific Northwest by Joan Hockaday (2009) (0)
Denver and the Reform Crusade (2013) (0)
"Exterminate Them!": Natives 1850s–90s (2013) (0)
The Businessman's State (2013) (0)
Revisiting Rajneeshpuram: Oregon's Largest Utopian Community as Western History (2015) (0)
Epilogue Imagining future cities (2020) (0)
Toward one Oregon: rual-urban interdependence (2009) (0)
Scenery, Health, and Tourism (2013) (0)
Model Cities@@@New York: A Physical History.@@@Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City. (1988) (0)
The Bonanza Years (2013) (0)
M umford, L ewis (2019) (0)
Vietnam in Historical Thinking (2005) (0)
Regional Planning for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (2011) (0)
Economic Peaks and Valleys (2013) (0)
Approaching the Literature of the Twentieth-Century West (2003) (0)
Reviews of Books (1976) (0)
Women in Politics and Society (2013) (0)
2. The suburban solution (2020) (0)
MARGARET PUGH O'MARA. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America.) Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 298. $35.00 (2006) (0)
The code for sustainable homes: what are the innovation challenges? (2009) (0)
Metropolitan Denver: Growth and Change in the Mile High City (2019) (0)
3. The Best Planned City (2001) (0)
Review: Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher (2019) (0)
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St. Louis by Jeffrey S. Adler (1992) (0)
Building Urban-Industrial America (1976) (0)
Forum: Atlas of the New West (1998) (0)
Postwar Politics and Other Diversions (2013) (0)
Memo to Lynn Bonner from Carl Abbott (2004) (0)
Air Conditioned Growth Machines (1985) (0)
International cities in the dual systems model: the transformations of Los Angeles and Washington (1991) (0)
From the Editors (2004) (0)
Indianapolis in the 1850s: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth (1978) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
The American City: A Social and Cultural History.By Daniel J. Monti Jr. Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 391 pp. Paper, $26.95 (2000) (0)
Suburbia and the Dual City in The Iron Heel (2011) (0)
Community Development in the American West: Past and Present Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Frontiers Jessie L. Embry Howard A. Christy (1987) (0)
Book Review: Snow Belt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest since World War II, edited by Richard M. Bernard (1992) (0)
A worldwide faith in the twentieth century and beyond (2020) (0)
Chapter 10. Real Estate and Race: Imagining the Second Circuit of Capital in Sunbelt Cities (2011) (0)
Construction Innovation: Orstavik/Construction Innovation (2014) (0)
The Pikes Peak Gold Rush (2013) (0)
Editor's page (1970) (0)
Exploring the issues for future of construction IT (2009) (0)
Conclusion: Civic Opportunity (2001) (0)
Ores to Metals: The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry James E. Fell, Jr. (1981) (0)
1. Capital of the Columbia (2001) (0)
The Landscape: The Urban Center Plaza (2003) (0)
University of Huddersfield Repository Drivers for Innovation in Production Management (2021) (0)
Child Care Center Design & the Potential of Architecture. (1995) (0)
Reviews of Books:Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 Robert M. Fogelson (2002) (0)
Pasadena on her Mind: Exploring Roots of Octavia E. Butler's Fiction (2018) (0)
Landscapes of Confict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (review) (2006) (0)
Exploring the issues for innovation platforms for the future of construction industry: Scenario planning approach: Keynote Paper (2009) (0)
A secret power among them (2020) (0)
George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation (2021) (0)
3. Saving the center (2020) (0)
Urban Texas: Politics and Development. Texas A&M Southwestern Studies. (1991) (0)
2. Everyday Portlands (2001) (0)
Thanks to Referees (1998) (0)
A Generation of Industrial Warfare (2013) (0)
The Imagination of Disaster, Revisited (2011) (0)
The centrality of electricity supply for global sustainable development (2015) (0)
The Political Culture of the New West by Jeff Roche (2009) (0)
Islandia: Agrarian Society Meets Global Capitalism (2018) (0)
City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning by Michael J. Lewis (review) (2018) (0)
The American Sunbelt: Idea and Region (1979) (0)
1. Streets and buildings (2020) (0)
From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (review) (2012) (0)
The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community by Miles Orvell (review) (2013) (0)
The next New York (2017) (0)
How to Read The American West: A Field Guide by William Wyckoff (2014) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
Olmsted, Frederick Law (2019) (0)
Los Angeles Revisualized (1997) (0)
Imagining Urban Futures (2016) (0)

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