City Repair

WW HOT SEAT: Roberto Cassanueva and the Reware Market

City Repair's Reware Upcycle Market SEA Change Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 110. Sunday Dec 27th, Noon-6 pm Original article BY KATE WILLIAMS | KWILLIAMS AT WWEEK DOT COM [December 16th, 2009] It’s mid-December. Holiday planning and shopping usually take top priority. For City Repair’s ReWare organizer Roberto Casanueva, however, all of this shopping is completely absurd. He, along with volunteers for the nonprofit, have ...

Village Building Convergence 2010

May 28th - June 6th vbc@cityrepair.org 503-235-8946 http://www.cityrepair.org/vbc Community Site Application for VBC2010 is now available HERE Please share this with anyone you know who may be interested in community projects for spring 2010! May 28th to June 6th, City Repair's VillageBuildingConvergence2010. VBC is an annual ten-day placemaking event that brings communities together with resources, volunteers, and local leaders in the field of placemaking and sustainability. ...

Dignity Village: Winter Coat Prime Party

Event Details Sunday December 27th. 10am-3pm Dignity Village (9401 NE Sunderland Rd.) Please rsvp to redsemilla@riseup.net http://www.redsemillaroja.org/Projects/Dignity%20Village%20Murals.html Located in Portland, Oregon, Dignity Village is the country's first city-sanctioned homeless encampment. Now much more than the tent village that it started as, Dignity Village is a place for homeless individuals to find stable housing and resources while looking for work and permanent housing. In an effort to ...

350 Day’s Reflection: Gaia University Saves The Day

350 Day's Reflection: Gaia University Saves The Day by Jan Lundberg "I went down to the demonstration to get my fair share of abuse."  (from the Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want).  It was as nice a day as Portland, Ore. could hope for for a rally, and there was no abuse.  This movement threatens no one.  One reason is ...

The Future of PDX Water

We currently drink some of the best quality tap water in the country, naturally pure rain water which falls into a protected watershed, is filtered through millions of fir needles and earth, and stored in open reservoirs, where it is exposed to natural UV radiation, effectively keeping it free of harmful microbes. Because we source our water from an entire ...

Portland’s first residential bike parking shelter raises questions

By Jonathan Maus Original Article A new residential bike parking shelter on SE Washington near Laurelhurst Park. (Photos © J. Maus) We’ve closely documented the City of Portland’s efforts to create new bike parking in business districts — but what about bike parking in residential areas? A Southeast Portland couple wondered the same thing, and now their home boasts the city’s first ever, ...

The Vision of City Repair

City Repair began in Portland, Oregon 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.

Our projects include the annual Village Building Convergence, where people gather at neighborhood sites throughout Portland to engage in intersection repair, natural building, and other forms of placemaking. We also host Earth Day, the Village Planting Convergence (also known as City Riparian), and operate a mobile tea house called the T-Horse.

Throughout the year we educate the community with workshops on all forms of sustainability and offer the invaluable placemaking guidebook and one-on-one consulting for those who want to repair their own neighborhood. If you are interested in helping our efforts please visit our volunteer page.

As an almost entirely volunteer-driven nonprofit organization, we rely solely on the support of our community. Please consider donating to help ensure our vision becomes a reality.