City Repair
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| Language: | English |
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City Repair was the wiki site for The City Repair Project, an all-volunteer grassroots organization helping people reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places.
About The City Repair Project[edit]
The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live.
City Repair’s projects[edit]
- inspire people to both understand themselves as part of a larger community and fulfill their own creative potential, and
- activate people to be part of the communities around them, as well as part of the decision-making that shapes the future of their communities.
The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of volunteer citizen activists.
City Repair was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. Born out of a successful grassroots neighborhood initiative that converted a residential street intersection into a neighborhood public square, City Repair began its work with the idea that localization (of culture, of economy, of decision-making) is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.
Operations[edit]
We are an almost entirely volunteer-run social-profit (non-profit) organization. Our projects include:
- temporary and permanent placemaking installations,
- community events,
- educational presentations,
- consultation and technical assistance,
- community placemaking facilitation, and
- the development of our own egalitarian community of activists and volunteers.
The City Repair Project maintains an office in Portland, operating with over 15 largely volunteer and part-time staff, coordinators, and assistants.
We facilitate artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world.
Our Fields of Work[edit]
- Placemaking and architecture
- Urban planning and design
- Ecological and Social Sustainability
- Community resource localization
- Nonhierarchical decision-making: Resources include:
- Seeds for Change, Making Decisions Co-operatively, Starhawk's Activism Page
- Equality, diversity and peace
- Cultural identity and Bioregionalism
- Paradigm reconstruction
