Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of 'southern efficiency and ...

In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a pap...

?This is a brilliantly conceived, extremely thorough, and eminently satisfying piece of historica...

The first comprehensive and comparative analysis of urban growth in the American South and West d...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--a...

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

Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987, the study of American cities has...

Quakerism: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse appro...

A comprehensive study of the first national scenic area that examines the origins and impact of t...

Quakerism: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history and diverse appro...

A fascinating account of Portland's 1905 World's Fair that captures the optimism and ambition of ...

Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urb...

The landscape encountered by the Corps of Discovery during their multi-year, cross- country trek ...

A fascinating account of Portland's 1905 World's Fair that captures the optimism and ambition of ...

For thirty years, Brian Campf collected vintage photographs and ephemera related to Oregon sports...

A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first c...

It sometimes seems as if suburbs are taking over the world. For the last two centuries, most urba...

Quakers bring a special approach to political action that draws on 360 years of activism.

The second edition of Quakerism: The Basics introduces a vibrant twenty-first century religion, t...

Der Erste Weltkrieg hat begonnen, das Deutsche Reich befindet sich im Rausch. Angestachelt von ih...