Carl Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 79773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7782-1403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building a Social Contract
Cli-fi
Faut-il définir la climate fiction, fiction climatique, cli-fi ? Ou plutôt l’éprouver et la pratiquer, dans la création comme dans la critique et la théorie ? Le comité scientifique du colloque La ville dans les fictions climatiques (2021) s’est prêté à l’exercice. Cinq brèves variations sont proposées ici : a) sur les formes narratives et les questions qu’elles permettent de poser en les incarnant dans les histoires ; b) sur le tournant émotionn…
Portland in Three Centuries
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George Washington's Final Battle
Book Review: George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation. By Robert P. Watson. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2020. xiv, 363 pp
M umford, L ewis
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) was a prolific and influential writer on American art and architecture, urban planning, technology, and the history of urban development. His career spanned the 1920s through the 1970s as he published a score of major books and reached a national audience with hundreds of articles and reviews in which he argued for decentralized urbanization that maintained a human scale while respecting the landscape. Many of his other …
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Frederick Law Olmsted was a central figure in the modernization of the United States and in the development of its cities. His variegated career overlapped with many of the important events and trends of nineteenth‐century America – agricultural reform, slavery and the Civil War, conservation, the World's Columbian Exposition, suburbanization, and, most centrally, the development of urban parks. Key projects included Central Park in New York, Pro…
Metropolitan Denver
Metropolitan Denver is the tenth entry in the Metropolitan Portraits series, compact books that introduce major urban regions through the perspectives of history, spatial patterns, and culture. The series was conceived by the urban geographer Judith A. Martin, and the authors have come equally from geography, history, and urban planning. Cities in the series range from San Diego to Miami to Toronto and include nontraditional urban regions such as…
Pasadena on Her Mind
The article explores the science fiction writing of African American author Octavia E. Butler. The author analyzes several of Butler's books, including "Parable of the Sower," "Kindred," and "Mind of My Mind," and examines how these stories repeatedly feature Butler's hometown of Pasadena, California.
Imagining Urban Futures
Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Mieville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. 'Imagining Urban Futures' is a remarkable treatise on what is best and strongest in urban theory and practice to…
Too High & Too Steep
The people of Seattle have worked long and hard to fulfill the pronouncement in Isaiah 40:4 that “every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.” The generations of very secular (earth)movers and shakers who engineered the cityscape were working to make straight the way for Mercury, god of commerce and communication. As David B. Williams demonstrates in th…
Jim Rockford or Tony Soprano
Both in television shows such as The Rockford Files and The Sopranos and in the fiction of writers such as John Updike, Richard Ford, and Douglas Coupland, popular culture draws a distinction between Atlantic Coast and Pacific Coast suburbs. The differences revolve around two themes. The first concerns the roles of place and space. The second is the varying weight of history, often as manifested through families and social ties. Eastern suburbs a…
Heather FRYER. Perimeters of Democracy
One way to enter Heather Fryer's complex argument about federal communities in the twentieth-century West is through her book's final chapter, where she reminds us that in 1950 Senator Pat McCarran proposed that the federal government create camps for the preventive detention of leftwing subversives. Had such camps been built and used, they would have been the direct descendants of the “inverse utopias” that are Fryer's subject. These “utopias” w…
Frontier Cities
Frontier Cities revisits, reconsiders, and revitalizes the concept of a North American urban frontier. In The Urban Frontier: Pioneer Life in Early Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville, and St. Louis (1959), Richard C. Wade turned frontier history and urban history inside out, arguing persuasively that early western cities were the “spearheads of the frontier,” with histories that were just as important as those of much-studied New York …
Centers and Edges
To the City
Julia L. Foulkes. To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011).This book is fun. It offers 101 images drawn from more than 170,000 photographs taken
Rocky Mountain Refuge
Colorado has long functioned in American culture as the epitome of the American West, identified both as a safe refuge and as a place for starting over. This essay examines the ways in which writers of speculative fiction have drawn on Colorado's historically constructed identity as the setting for stories of refuge and retreat. The discussion examines parallels in the use of the Colorado setting by sf writers Robert A. Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, …
Pacific Visions (Special Edition)
Research Article| May 01 2014 Pacific Visions (Special Edition) David A. Johnson, David A. Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Carl Abbott, Carl Abbott Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Susan Wladaver-Morgan Susan Wladaver-Morgan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2014) 83 (2): 373–374. https://do…
Dark Rose
In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within Portland’s law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the city’s lucrative prostitution, gambling, and bootlegging operations. Turner and Lambert blew the cover on the Teamsters’ scheme to take over alcohol sales and distribution and profit from these fri…
Eden on the Charles
Reviewed by: Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston Carl Abbott (bio) Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston. By Michael Rawson. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+367. $29.95. Eden on the Charles is a pleasure to read. The body of the book consists of five largely independent essays about different ways in which nineteenth-century Bostonians thought about, interacted with, and modified their physical surroundings. The…
The Public and Its Possibilities
John D. Fairfield, The Public and Its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).John Fairfield offers a passionate reading of American
The Imagination of Disaster, Revisited
Suburbia and the Dual City in The Iron Heel
Redefining Quaker Simplicity
In 2005, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the major Quaker peace and justice lobbying organization in the United States, completed a substantial remodeling and expansion of its office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The building exemplifies a self-conscious effort to express Quaker values of simplicity and stewardship in architectural choices. Examining the changing meanings of simplicity as expressed in Quaker meeting h…
Cyberpunk Cities
The science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk developed in the 1980s and 1990s with a strong interest in urban settings. A reading of important cyberpunk novels shows the way in which the ideas of formal urban theory, such as the idea of global cities, cities as communication systems, and the Los Angeles school of urban studies, have been incorporated into this facet of popular culture. The analysis suggests that science fiction can help planners to …
A City on Mars
Five Downtown Strategies
Americans have planned for their downtowns within a continually changing framework of images and assumptions about the nature of central business districts. During each decade since World War II, discussion of downtown problems and possibilities has been dominated by a distinct set of assumptions that has conditioned academic research, federal policy, and local planning. From decade to decade, experts on downtowns have chosen different themes as …
Cyberpunk Cities
The science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk developed in the 1980s and 1990s with a strong interest in urban settings. A reading of important cyberpunk novels shows the way in which the ideas of formal urban theory, such as the idea of global cities, cities as communication systems, and the Los Angeles school of urban studies, have been incorporated into this facet of popular culture. The analysis suggests that science fiction can help planners to …
Political Terrain
Political Terrain: Washington, D. C, from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis. By Carl Abbott. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 252 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2478-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4805-0.) Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
Morning Glories
Utopia and Bureaucracy
During 1981-1985, the followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh built a large utopian community in eastern Oregon's solitude and named it Rajneeshpuram. While Rajneeshpuram appeared to be physically isolated and removed from government intervention, it was actually embedded in a dense system of laws and bureaucratic regulations, quite within reach of local, state, and national bureaucracies. It was this ability of the local and state regulators to limi…
The Suburban Sunbelt
Portland, Oregon
The International City Hypothesis
Differentiates between the concepts of world cities and international cities, asserting that study of international cities offers greater opportunities for research and analysis of major urban regions of the latter 20th century. The world city model emphasizes hierarchy and status based on influence and power. The international city model emphasizes numerous indicators that demonstrate a broader range of international connections, including forei…
The Light on the Horizon
American cities have never experienced modern total war, leaving Americans to imagine the impacts of catastrophic warfare on their urban centers. This article examines post-1945depictions of the death of U.S. cities in films, short stories, and novels from the “thriller,” “future war,” and science fiction genres since 1945. Cities are conspicuous by their absence from fictions of future war and its impacts, often disappearing offstage to allow th…
Regional City and Network City
Although Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, have comparable early histories, similar economic bases, and parallel demographic profiles, their responses to the rise of a global economy in the 20th century differ. Both were regional capitals in the first half of the century. Since then, however, Portland has kept its traditional role and has gained ground as a regional capital, while Seattle has become a network city transferring goods, ser…
Frontiers and Sections
CITIES ARE OBVIOUS ENOUGH, WE USUALLY KNOW ONE WHEN WE SEE IT: a vertical accent of skyscrapers, smokestacks, and grain elevators rising out of the horizontal landscape of North America. Regions are harder to find. They are abstractions defined by common heritage and by intermittent flows of people, objects, and information. They can be large or small, physiographic, economic, or political. Regional boundaries vary with the purpose of the discuss…
Frontier Cities
Frontier Cities revisits, reconsiders, and revitalizes the concept of a North American urban frontier. In The Urban Frontier: Pioneer Life in Early Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville, and St. Louis (1959), Richard C. Wade turned frontier history and urban history inside out, arguing persuasively that early western cities were the “spearheads of the frontier,” with histories that were just as important as those of much-studied New York …
The Shaping of America
The Internationalization of Washington, D.C
The globalization of U.S. cities is attracting increasing theoretical and empirical attention. The author analyzes internationally oriented activities in metropolitan Washington, D.C., and demonstrates that the city's international roles are built directly on its historic function as a national city. Focusing on change over time, the author also shows that globalization is a stepwise process: Several key periods of the expansion of international …
Thinking about Cities
Urban history in United States in the last 150 years has been concerned with two central questions. Historians of three generations focused on the process of urbanization and the problem of civic order in the cities. The historians of recent times emphasize on community formation as the determinant of economic growth and its general effect. Earlier scholars discussed the creation of communities and institutions and the correlation between urban a…
United States Regional History as an Instructional Field
In one sense, American history is "a sequential process of regional development marked by a persistent tension between regional cultures and economic interests and integrative national institutions and values." Since the 1890's, regional history has been an active enterprise supported by academic instruction, leading university presses, specialized journals, and professional organizations. A survey of college and university departments of history…
Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning
There is little doubt that the United States has been undergoing a sweeping and multi-faceted economic transformation since the early 1970s. The industrial mix and spatial distribution of activities within the national economy are being altered by basic changes, including (1) the simultaneous growth of certain manufacturing industries and the decline of others, (2) the broad decentralization of manufacturing production to overseas locations and t…
Modern Times
Colonial Place, Norfolk
Racial integration on a neighborhood scale is a relatively new phenomenon in southern cities. The experience of the Colonial Place neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, since the middle 1960s provides evidence for testing generalizations about the factors required for stable racial integration. The paper suggests that the characteristics of racial relations in the South may allow socioeconomic heterogeneity to be compatible with racial integration. …
Popular Economic Thought and Occupational Structure
Historic Denver
Journal Article Historic Denver: The Architects and the Architecture, 1858–1893 and Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific Get access Historic Denver: The Architects and the Architecture, 1858–1893. By Brettell Richard R.. (Denver: Historic Denver, Inc., 1973. xii, 240 p. Illustrations, photographs, reproductions, drawings, author's notes, bibliography, index. $16.95.)Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific. Edited by Greiff …
Building Urban-Industrial America
Suburb and City
The Politics of Exclusion
Journal Article The Politics of Exclusion. By Michael N. Danielson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. ix + 443 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth, $17.50; paper, $6.95.) Get access Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Old Dominion University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 2, September 1977, Pages 498–499, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901926 Published: 01 Sept…
Colorado
Journal Article Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. By Carl Abbott. (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1976. vii + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.50.) Get access Duane A. Smith Duane A. Smith Fort Lewis College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 4, March 1977, Pages 1004–1005, https…
Colorado
Journal Article Colorado: A History of the Centennial State Get access Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. By Abbott Carl. (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1976. 324 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $12.50.) Marshall Sprague Marshall Sprague Colorado Springs, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1977…
Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860
Journal Article Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836–1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City Get access Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836–1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City. By Conzen Kathleen Neils. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 300 p. Maps, tables, figures, index. $16.50.) Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Old Dominion University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Plural Society in Colorado
Colonial Place, Norfolk
Racial integration on a neighborhood scale is a relatively new phenomenon in southern cities. The experience of the Colonial Place neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, since the middle 1960s provides evidence for testing generalizations about the factors required for stable racial integration. The paper suggests that the characteristics of racial relations in the South may allow socioeconomic heterogeneity to be compatible with racial integration. …
Urban America
Journal Article Urban America: From Downtown to No Town. By David R. Goldfield and Blaine A. Brownell. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. xi + 435 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. Paper, $10.95.) Get access Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pag…
Community stressors, mediating conditions and wellbeing in urban neighborhoods
Individual and community measures of stress are related to the presence of depression/demoralization symptoms (Feeling Bad), to positive Wellbeing (Feeling Good) and to the combination of these two (Wellbeing), in an urban sample of 549 adults. The mediation and moderation of these effects by indicators of social support, evaluation of status, and belief variables intended to measure aspects of individual coping tendencies are examined and tested…
The New Urban America
Boosters and Businessmen
Review of: Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. Abbott, Carl
The New Urban America
Journal Article The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities Get access The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities. By Abbott Carl. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. viii + 317 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95, cloth; $9.95, paper.) Glen E. Holt Glen E. Holt Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Hist…
Boosters and Businessmen
Journal Article Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West Get access Boosters and Businessmen: Popular Economic Thought and Urban Growth in the Antebellum Middle West. By Abbott Carl. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. xii + 266 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $27.50.) Margaret Walsh Margaret Walsh University of Birmingham Search for other works by this …
Portland
Journal Article Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City. By Carl Abbott. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. x + 350 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $12.95.) Get access Paul Barrett Paul Barrett Illinois Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3,…
Air Conditioned Growth Machines
Frontiers and Sections
CITIES ARE OBVIOUS ENOUGH, WE USUALLY KNOW ONE WHEN WE SEE IT: a vertical accent of skyscrapers, smokestacks, and grain elevators rising out of the horizontal landscape of North America. Regions are harder to find. They are abstractions defined by common heritage and by intermittent flows of people, objects, and information. They can be large or small, physiographic, economic, or political. Regional boundaries vary with the purpose of the discuss…
Portland
Journal Article Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City Get access Portland: Planning, Politics, and Growth in a Twentieth-Century City. By Abbott Carl. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. 350 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.) Gerald D. Nash Gerald D. Nash University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Conquering the Rivers
The Suburban Sunbelt
Modern Times
Model Cities
Town Building on the Colorado Frontier
Journal Article Town Building on the Colorado Frontier. By Kathleen Underwood. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xxii + 181 pp. $24.95.) Get access Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 631–632, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887938 Published: 01 September 1988
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