Swarthmore College
Which school did Carl Abbott (urban historian) go to from 1965 to 1966?
Carl Abbott ( urban historian ) 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 , and is a frequent speaker to local community groups . Since 1967 he 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 ) . His academic positions have included the University of Denver ( 1971–72 ) , Old Dominion University ( 1972–78 ) , and Portland State University ( 1978–2012 ) . He has also held visiting positions at Mesa University , George Washington University , and the University of Oregon . He served as president of the Urban History Association ( 1995 ) , has been a member of the American Historical Association since 1982 and served as president of its Pacific Coach Branch from 2012 until 2013 . Other professional service has included co-editorship of the journal of the American Planning Association from 1999 to 2004 and of the Pacific Historical Review from 1997 to 2014 . 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 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 as well as shorter essays for general readers on his website . Abbott is also active in fields of public history , working with Portlands Architectural Heritage Center , The Oregon Encyclopedia , 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 .