Böcker av Carl Abbott

This volume details the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905.

Looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore these frontiers - the metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental frontier of American settlement, and the yet unrealized frontiers beyond Earth.

Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning.

What science fiction can teach us about urban planning

Written for a mature audience with an interest in music, history and mystery, this historical novel investigates the subtleties of love, guilt and forgiveness, ambition and ego, the rewards of a personal adventure, the career of the real-life de Pachmann, and Europe on the verge of another world war.

Will the settlement of Mars prove much different from the settlement of the West? This study shows us how the ways we remember the past greatly influence our ability to imagine multiple futures - in distant universes that appear very strange and yet utterly familiar.