Carl Smith Books
City water city life
"A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a su...
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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman - these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American...
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What s in a name
By Carl Smith
What's in a name? : Michelangelo and the art of signature is the story of an improbable investigation into an unlikely subject, one that began on a dare but stretched over a decade. Why did Michela...
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