City Repair

(As of: 2006-06-16)

City Repair was the wiki site for The City Repair Project, an all-volunteer  organization helping people reclaim their  spaces to create -oriented places.

About The City Repair Project
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
The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of volunteer citizen activists.
 * 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.

City Repair was formed in , 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
We are an almost entirely volunteer-run social-profit () organization. Our projects include: The City Repair Project maintains an office in Portland, operating with over 15 largely volunteer and part-time staff, coordinators, and assistants.
 * 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.

We facilitate artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world.

Our Fields of Work

 * 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