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  • City Planning

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Imagining Urban Futures

    Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

    by Carl Abbott ...
    What science fiction can teach us about urban planningCarl 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 Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. ... Read more

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  • Suburbs

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia," while people who like big yards dislike bustling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Quakerism: The Basics

    by Margery Post Abbott, Carl Abbott ...
    Series series The Basics
    Quakerism: The Basics introduces a vibrant twenty-first-century religion, tracing the evolution of the Religious Society of Friends from its origins in seventeenth-century England to a worldwide religion, balancing discussion of Quaker history, evolving beliefs and practices, and contemporary social action. An accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse approaches and ideas ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Colorado

    A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

    by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.The fifth ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Dark Rose

    Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland

    by Robert C Donnelly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Political Terrain

    Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis

    by Carl Abbott ...
    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, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between North and South, it has been a tidewater town, a southern city, a coveted prize in fighting between the states ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Colorado

    A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition

    by Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel ...
    Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Greater Portland

    Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIt 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, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and make one's home. Indeed, years of cooperative urban planning between developers and those interested in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How Cities Won the West

    Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Histories of the American Frontier Series
    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 nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Mourning de Pachmann

    The Quest for the Spirit of Chopin

    by Carl Abbott ...
    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 Ukranian pianist, Vladimir de Pachmann, for a biography he has always wanted to write. En route, he learns of a young, virtually blind Polish pianist, Agnieszka Lipska, who will be giving several recitals in ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Greater Portland

    Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIt 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, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and make one's home. Indeed, years of cooperative urban planning between developers and those interested in ... Read more

    $31.49 USD