Mill Power documents the making of a national park that changed the concept of what a national historic park could be. For a time in the 1800s, Lowell was Massachusetts's cosmopolitan, must-see second city. The city's industrial model was as high-tech then as Silicon Valley is today. It drew the attention of luminaries like Charles Dickens, Congressmen Davy Crockett and Abraham Lincoln, feminist sociologist Harriet Martineau, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This insider's account of the creative, bold, and community-driven process to establish the park explains why today Lowell National Historic Park is renowned as "the partnership park." The park's establishment was an integral piece of an urban revival strategy that has made Lowell the subject of scores of newspaper articles, magazine profiles, TV and radio reports, scholarly papers, and book chapters. Historic Preservation magazine has hailed the park as "the premier rehabilitation model for gritty cities worldwide." The Lowell story has much to teach the mid-sized cities of the nation and the world.
Mill Power frames the Lowell comeback in its historical context and brings together the people who dreamed, wrote, designed, pushed, and cheered a new national park into existence along with those who came after with the charges of shaping the ideas into material form. The volume features 100 photos, many of them showing the before-and-after story of this renovation.
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Höhe: 254 mm
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978-1-4422-3629-5 (9781442236295)
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Paul Marion was born in Lowell and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. In the 1980s, he was an administrator with the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, helping to develop the programs and properties of the Lowell National Historic Park. A co-founder of the Lowell Folk Festival and Lowell Heritage Partnership, he was instrumental in the development of the Lowell Cultural Plan, Mogan Cultural Center, and the Jack Kerouac Commerative. He is currently executive director of community and cultural affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Lightning Strikes Twice Part One: The Intentional City Pawtucket and Wamesit "Wonderful Machine" Waterpower Mile of Mills First Blood of the North Battered Hive Neighborhood Nations Running on Empty Part Two: Urban Laboratory Model City Mogan Speaks Revitalization Living History: David McKean College Town Part Three: Making the Park "Lowell Has Done It" A National Park Stands Apart Stairway to Park-dom From Alternative School to Urban Cultural Park The Park Bill Becomes Law: A Staff Diary An Act Establishing a Park Building the Park: First Moves Taking Shape Realizing the Idea The Canalway and Beyond Into the Twenty-first Century Yellowstone and Lowell Part Four: Bricks and Mortar, Then and Now Part Five: The Economics of Heritage Urban Destruction Fear Not Preservation Adaptive-Reuse Economics Lowell: By the Numbers Heritage Reclamation: Public-Private Sectors, Investment and Development "The Long View" Preservation Tax Credit Tool Stand-off at the Dam Two Cases: Market Mills and Hamilton Canal District High-Tech Hive Public-Private Partnership Creative Place-making Gathering the Lowell Honey Part Six: Telling the Story If the Falls Could Speak A Counter-Narrative "The Danger of a Single Story" The Power of Water Riding the Paul Moody Walk This Way: A Canal Hike Mill Work Moulin Rouge The City as a Classroom The Everywhere School Tsongas Industrial History (and Science) Center Lowell Folk Festival Traditions Connect Us Cultural Affairs Lowell Summer Music Series Sculpture Trail Kerouac Comes Home Part Seven: Stewardship and Leadership Youth Stewardship Public Matters A Note about the Author Notes Bibliography Index
