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This talk is adapted from his current book project, City Water, City Life, a cultural history of cities and water in nineteenth-century America. He will discuss how the construction of the first comprehensive waterworks in a major American city in Philadelphia in 1801, and the reconstruction of that works over the next two decades, involved an extended consideration of what a healthy American city might be at the onset of the nation’s great era of urbanization. He will explain the ways in which that consideration that was an important part of the evolution of urban infrastructure.
Carl Smith is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University. Smith is author of Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief and the forthcoming The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, and curator of the electronic exhibitions The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory and The Dramas of Haymarket.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lewis Hall 209
USC Campus
Please RSVP to April Gallegos at aprilg@usc.edu or (213) 740-2695.
There is no cost to attend this event. Lunch will be provided.