Posts Tagged “On the Cultural Road: City of World Culture”

Lowell’s Big Plans by James Ostis

October 25, 2016 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell 2 Comments

Lowell’s Big Plans By James Ostis Lowell was the most significant planned industrial city in the early United States. In the 1820s, a group of Boston investors set their sights on the water power potential of the Merrimack River and systematically created a new community based on maximizing the development…

Current Road Map for Cultural Development in Lowell

July 4, 2014 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

On the Cultural Road: City of World Culture, Strategies for the Creative Economy in Lowell, Massachusetts A lot of thought, effort, and money were invested in developing this road map for cultural development several years go. The first Lowell Cultural Plan (1986) was at least a ten-year campaign. That report was revised…