Carl Abbott is professor emeritus of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. He has published sixteen books as an author, editor, or coeditor. These include Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (University of New Mexico Press, 2016).
13 Ebooks von Carl Abbott
Robert C Donnelly: 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 …
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€27.99
Carl Abbott: Mourning de Pachmann
In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a paper at an international psychiatric meeting and to further research the career of the eccentric …
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€47.14
Carl Abbott: Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of ’southern efficiency and northern charm.‘ Kennedy’s quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, …
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€32.99
Carl Abbott: Greater Portland
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title It has been called one of the nation’s most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work …
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€38.99
Finn Orstavik & Andrew R. J. Dainty: Construction Innovation
Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry …
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€110.99
Finn Orstavik & Andrew R. J. Dainty: Construction Innovation
Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry …
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€110.99
Carl Abbott: 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. …
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€26.99
Carl Abbott: How Cities Won the West
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninetee …
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€33.99
Carl Abbott & Margery Post Abbott: Quakerism: The Basics
Quakerism: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse approaches and ideas associated with the Religious Society of Friends. This small religion incorporates a w …
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€23.56
Carl Abbott & Margery Post Abbott: Quakerism: The Basics
Quakerism: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse approaches and ideas associated with the Religious Society of Friends. This small religion incorporates a w …
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€23.72
Carl Abbott: City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments …
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€9.46
Carl Abbott: City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and–sometimes utopian–aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments …
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€9.29
Carl Abbott: Political Terrain
Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy’s quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, …
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€37.51
