Village Building Design Course 2013
The Village Building Design Course May 23-24, 26-27 Visit: cityrepair.org/register
Village Building Convergence 2013
VBC Website: http://vbc.cityrepair.org Urban Succession: Shift and Sprout Dates: May 24th - June 2nd, 2013 Location: Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta ST Portland Contact: e-mail, facebook, twitter - #vbc13
City Repair’s Placemaking Guidebook
City Repair offers two great resources to help you reclaim public space and build community! City Repair’s Placemaking Guidebook Our best print resource for community-based projects such as Intersection Repair is called the Placemaking Guidebook. It includes physical examples, stories, techniques for community organizing and facilitation, and much more. This Guidebook begins where most American communities find themselves: socially isolated, yet relatively stable. If you are fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood where people are already engaged in community building, then start wherever it makes sense. Keep in mind, however, that even the most socially active neighborhoods include people who feel disempowered ...
The Word: City Repair’s Weekly Newsletter
Welcome to the Word sign-up page! The Word is how you can stay informed about the many activities of our organization and the extended placemaking and community building network. We're currently working on improving our system to give you greater specificity over the variety, frequency, and quantity of news that you want to receive. Use our form below to get plugged in and contact theword@cityrepair.org if you have any questions. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS ...
The Vision of City Repair
City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.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.
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.
