According to
Webster's Dictionary, a Charrette is an intense final effort
made by architectural students to complete their solutions
to a given architectural problem in an allotted time. The
Human Services Corporation adapted this model to
community-based environmental planning and hosted a
Charrette on the weekend of April 19, 20, and 21, 1996, at
Lowell High School. One hundred local citizens, officials,
and volunteer and paid professionals assembled to assimilate
essential data, conduct overviews of all site conditions,
define development scenarios, develop a range of alternative
concepts, and develop options for action plans to create
Lowell: the Flowering City.
Anthopolis is a
word coined from two Greek words meaning a "flowering
city." The Project Anthopolis Charrette was intended to
initiate a 25-year effort to reconnect Lowell and its people
to the region's natural and manmade environment to improve
the quality of life for Lowell residents, present and
future.
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