Carl Smith
Professor Emeritus of English
Ph.D. Yale University
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Biography
Carl Smith is Professor Emeritus of English and History at Northwestern University. See his website for further information.Books
![Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City](../../../images/faculty-publications/fsmith05.jpg)
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
![City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago](../../../images/faculty-publications/fsmith04.jpg)
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
![The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City](../../../images/faculty-publications/fsmith03.jpg)
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
![The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman](../../../images/faculty-publications/fsmith02.jpg)
The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (University Of Chicago Press, 1995)
![Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920](../../../images/faculty-publications/fsmith01.jpg)
Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 ( University of Chicago Press, 1984)