Carl Abbott (urban historian)

Carl Abbott (born December 3, 1944) is an American urban historian with research interests in the modern American West, the Sun Belt, Portland, and the cultural imagination of cities, and he is professor emeritus of urban studies and planning at Portland State University.

He served as president of the Urban History Association and of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and has co-edited both the Journal of the American Planning Association and Pacific Historical Review.