| The new urban America: Growth and politics in Sunbelt cities C Abbott University of North Carolina Press, 1981 | 402 | 1981 |
| The metropolitan frontier: Cities in the modern American West C Abbott University of Arizona Press, 1993 | 237 | 1993 |
| Portland: Planning, politics, and growth in a twentieth-century city C Abbott University of Nebraska Press, 1983 | 230 | 1983 |
| Colorado: A history of the centennial state C Abbott, SJ Leonard, TJ Noel University Press of Colorado, 2005 | 223 | 2005 |
| Integration and leadership as enablers of innovation in construction: Case study B Ozorhon, C Abbott, G Aouad Journal of management in engineering 30 (2), 256-263, 2014 | 193 | 2014 |
| Facilitating innovation in construction: Directions and implications for research and policy G Aouad, B Ozorhon, C Abbott Construction innovation 10 (4), 374-394, 2010 | 176 | 2010 |
| Greater Portland: Urban life and landscape in the Pacific Northwest C Abbott University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 | 173 | 2015 |
| Political terrain: Washington, DC, from tidewater town to global metropolis C Abbott Univ of North Carolina Press, 1999 | 119* | 1999 |
| How cities won the West: Four centuries of urban change in western North America C Abbott University of New Mexico Press, 2011 | 114 | 2011 |
| The Portland region: Where city and suburbs talk to each other—and often agree C Abbott Housing Policy Debate 8 (1), 11-51, 1997 | 113 | 1997 |
| Planning the Oregon way: A twenty-year evaluation C Abbott, DA Howe, S Adler | 112 | 1994 |
| Boosters and businessmen: Popular economic thought and urban growth in the antebellum Middle West C Abbott Greenwood, 1981 | 107 | 1981 |
| Innovation in construction: A project life cycle approach B Ozorhon, C Abbott, G Aouad, J Powell Salford Centre for Research and Innovation in the Built Environment (SCRI …, 2010 | 105 | 2010 |
| Integrating BIM and GIS for large-scale facilities asset management: a critical review X Zhang, Y Arayici, S Wu, C Abbott, GF Aouad | 103 | 2009 |
| The American journey: A history of the United States D Goldfield Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001 | 94 | 2001 |
| Historical analysis as a planning tool C Abbott, S Adler Journal of the American Planning Association 55 (4), 467-473, 1989 | 92 | 1989 |
| The economic motivation for innovation in small construction companies C Abbot, K Jeong, S Allen Construction Innovation 6 (3), 187-196, 2006 | 88 | 2006 |
| Frontiers past and future: Science fiction and the American West C Abbott University Press of Kansas, 2006 | 88 | 2006 |
| Hidden innovation in the construction and property sectors PS Barrett, C Abbott, MG Sexton, L Ruddock RICS Research paper series 7 (20), 2007 | 87 | 2007 |
| Cyberpunk cities: science fiction meets urban theory C Abbott Journal of planning education and research 27 (2), 122-131, 2007 | 84 | 2007 |
