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The All-America City Award is a community recognition program in the United States given by the National Civic League.The award recognizes the work of communities in using inclusive civic engagement to address critical issues and create stronger connections among residents, businesses and nonprofit and government leaders.
The National Civic League was founded as the National Municipal League in 1894 at the National Conference for Good City Government in Philadelphia. [5] [6] The convention of politicians, policy-makers, journalists, and educators (including Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Marshall Field, and Frederick Law Olmsted) met to discuss "incompetence, inefficiency, patronage and corruption in local ...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (December 13, 1856 – January 6, 1943) was an American educator and legal scholar. He was president of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933. With an "aristocratic sense of mission and self-certainty," [1] Lowell cut a large figure in American education and to some extent in public life as well. At Harvard University his ...
All American City may refer to: "All American City" (song), a song by Brutal Juice; All-America City Award, a designation from the National Civic League
Civic culture is the invisible fabric that holds our diverse democracy together — the shared norms, values, narratives, habits, and rituals that guide how we live, work, and govern as a society.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled " Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital ".
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The park was built between a partnership with the city of Lowell and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The park was named for State Representative Edward A. LeLacheur, who led the initial redevelopment of Lowell, and opened in 1998. [4] [5] The park was built on the East Campus of UMass Lowell. Populous (formerly HOK Sport) designed the ...