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Praise for the first edition: -Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book.- (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) -Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well.- (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988)

Praise for the first edition: -Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book.- (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) -Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well.- (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988) Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book. (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well. (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988) Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book. ( Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well. ( Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988) Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern UShistory, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of finedetail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a trulynational cross-section of cities, are the most impressive featuresof the book. ( Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is anextraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; whiledirected toward the college classroom, it would make excellentreading for nonstudents as well. ( Indiana Magazine ofHistory, September 1988)

<p> Praise for the first edition: <p> Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book. ( Design Book Review , Spring 1988)<p> Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well. ( Indiana Magazine of History , September 1988)

Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern UShistory, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of finedetail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a trulynational cross-section of cities, are the most impressive featuresof the book. (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is anextraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; whiledirected toward the college classroom, it would make excellentreading for nonstudents as well. (Indiana Magazine ofHistory, September 1988)

Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book. (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well. (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988) Praise for the first edition: Carl Abbott has produced a superb overview of modern US history, truly a state-of-the-art text... His mastery of fine detail and the variety and breadth of examples, drawn from a truly national cross-section of cities, are the most impressive features of the book. (Design Book Review, Spring 1988) Urban America in the Modern Age is an extraordinarily good short survey of modern unrban history; while directed toward the college classroom, it would make excellent reading for nonstudents as well. (Indiana Magazine of History, September 1988)

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Carl Abbott is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. His most recent books are Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West and Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest. Among earlier books, both The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West and Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town in Global Metropolis have won national awards. His research interests center on the history of city planning and the relationships between urban growth and regional change.

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