Carl Abbott retired after teaching urban studies and planning at Portland State University for over five decades. He has written about the history of cities from Washington to Chicago to Los Angeles to Portland. He is a past president of the Urban History Association and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and has served as coeditor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Pacific Historical Review. He also writes about the intersections of history, urbanism, and speculative fiction. Recent short essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Washington Post, and Bloomberg CityLab.
