His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City and City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. It’s also available online, here.Ĭarl Smith is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. Stop by our Museum Store to pick up a signed copy of Carl Smith’s book. The talk will be richly illustrated with a wide selection of contemporary images. City Water City Life by Carl Smith, 2014, The University of Chicago Press edition, It looks like youre offline. It will then focus in particular on how people in the Driehaus Museum neighborhood, which was completely destroyed, experienced the fire. In this public author talk, Carl Smith of Northwestern University discusses how a city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. Smith will draw on his research to present an overview of those fateful October days in 1871 when Chicago watched as a third of its city burned and afterwards, learned the hopeful lessons that ensured its broad-shouldered future. Kicking things off on Monday, 23 September, is City Water, City Life: The Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Boston. Join us for a vivid overview of the Great Chicago Fire with Carl Smith, the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University, and the author of Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City. Thursday, October 7 6:00-7:30 pm CDT ONLINE ONLY Buy Tickets General Public: $15 Members: $12

City Water, City Life by Carl Smith