Profile: Meet Professor Carl Abbott

Carl Abbott, Ph.D
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning

B.A. (history) 1966 Swarthmore College, M.A. (history) 1967, Ph.D. (history) 1971, University of Chicago.

Dr. Abbott's teaching and research interests include urban history, urban revitalization policy, and regional development in the United States. He is known widely for writing on the history of urban development and planning in the twentieth-century United States. He has published extensively on the history of city planning, the evolution of U.S. urban policy, and the relationships between urban growth and regional development. He served as president of the Urban History Association for 1995 and is currently co-editor of the /Pacific Historical Review/. He is also a former co-editor of the /Journal of the American Planning Association/. He is the author of several books and has won "best book" awards in the fields of urban history and city planning history. His most recent books are /Frontiers Past and Present: Science Fiction and teh American West/ and  /How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America/. Dr. Abbott is also committed to efforts to bring an understanding of urban issues to nonacademic audiences through writing and work with civic organizations, museums, and public historical organizations.

Professor Abbott's contact information:
Office: Urban Center, room 370P
Phone: (503) 725.5171
E-mail: abbottc@pdx.edu