Posts Tagged “Innovative Cities”

‘Innovative Cities: Lowell, Mass.’ Group on Facebook

April 1, 2012 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell 2 Comments

I’ve been using Facebook since January 2011, and this online communications tool continues to impress me. Corey Sciuto, a fellow Lowell blogger and member of this year’s class in the Public Matters leadership development program of the Lowell Plan Inc and Nat’l Park Service, wrote to me on FB and said…

The City’s Song

December 1, 2010 by PaulM Posted in Current Events, History, Lowell, Culture Leave a Comment

One of our regular readers, Allegra Williams, is the city’s neighborhood planner and was the manager of last June’s Innovative Cities Conference. She attended a conference on cities in Brazil earlier this year and heard urban specialist Jaime Lerner (architect, urban planner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and a former…