the plan of chicago chicago visions and revisions
A series edited by Carlo Rotella, Bill Savage, Carl Smith, and Robert B. Stepto
Also in the series:
Barrio: Photographs from Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village Paul D’Amato The Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City carl smith
the university of chicago press chicago & london carl smith is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880–1920 and Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, both published by the University of Chicago Press, and the curator of the online exhibitions The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory and The Dramas of Haymarket.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2006 by Carl Smith All rights reserved. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-76471-9 (cloth) isbn-10: 0-226-76471-0 (cloth)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Carl S. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city / Carl Smith. p. cm. — (Chicago visions and revisions) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-226-76471-0 1. Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846 –1912. 2. City planning—Illinois—Chicago— History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series. na737.b85s65 2006 711'.40977311—dc22 2006005125
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