Take this unique opportunity to hear award-winning Minnesota writer Linda Mack share highlights of her recently completed oral history of the rebirth of the Minneapolis riverfront.
A lively center of commerce and river life in the last half of the 19th Century, by the 1970’s the Minneapolis riverfront became a collection of decrepit buildings and a tangle of railroad tracks. Some thought the riverfront had run its full lifecycle. But a re-birth was just around the corner. In the four decades since, the Minneapolis riverfront has blossomed into a city neighborhood boasting history, cultural offerings and new lofts in century-old buildings. How did this transformation occur?
Ms. Mack has tracked this re-development as architecture columnist for the Minneapolis StarTribune and, more recently, as head of an oral history project that included 27 interviews with riverfront movers and shakers. The interviews discuss the social, industrial, architectural and political history of the Minneapolis riverfront, the many and often conflicting plans for its redevelopment, and the actions taken to create the successful urban district that exists. At this SLUC event, her narrative will offer new insights--and some great stories--about this incredible riverfront revival.
End the year with an uplifting program about the incredible changes that has polished this jewel in our midst.
Guest Speaker:
Linda Mack covered architecture and urban design as a reporter and critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1986 to 2007, an era of unprecedented urban growth and cultural development. With special emphasis on historic preservation, her columns and articles helped readers understand such major developments as the rebirth of the Minneapolis riverfront, the redevelopment of Block E, and the design and construction of the new Walker Art Center, downtown Minneapolis library and Guthrie Theater.
Her writing has earned awards from the American Institute of Architects-Minnesota, the Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environment, the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and the New York-based Urban Design Institute. In November 2008 her architecture column in MARQ magazine won the Gold Award for best column from the Minnesota Magazine and Publication Association.
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