[Lapg] City Repair Slideshow w/ Mark Lakeman Fri Nov 9 @ 7pm

[camille cimino]

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The Los Angeles Permaculture Guild and SAJE present:

City Repair Slide Show and Social with Mark Lakeman.

Friday November 9

Doors open @ 7 pm
Slide show starts @ 8 pm

Social gathering and conversation afterwards.

Please bring snacks and/or beverages to share.


SAJE
152 West 32nd Street
Los Angeles, CA

Contact: Beverley Keefe
tel: 213.745.9961 x214
email: bkeefe at saje.net

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ABOUT SAJE
SAJE is an economic justice, community development,
and popular 
education center that has been building economic power
for working class 
people in Los Angeles since 1996.

Our accomplishments include creating the nation's
first welfare-to-work 
bank account and, through the Figueroa Corridor
Coalition for Economic 
Justice, negotiating the nation's most comprehensive
community benefits 
agreement.
Currently SAJE works on a platform of Urban Land
Reform, a solution to 
the ever-increasing problem of gentrification and
displacement in the 
Figueroa Corridor. 
Our goals are to:
•	Eliminate slum housing conditions and criminalize
slumlords.
•	Create universal tenants’ rights.
•	Reform and restructure redevelopment.
•	Increase people’s control over land use.
•	Build capacity and skills for leadership and
employment.

www.saje.net

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ABOUT CITY REPAIR
As both an organization and a larger movement, The
City
Repair Project inspires and guides the transformation
of the grid infrastructure of the typical American
city into a vital social commons. The
multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it has
become a national movement for social and ecological
restoration operating in a landscape characterized by
isolation and compartmentalization.

 www.cityrepair.org

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The story of The City Repair Project, in Portland,
Oregon.

A 1.5 Hour Visual Media Presentation by Mark Lakeman,
Co-Founder.
www.cityrepair.org

As both an organization and a larger movement, The
City Repair Project inspires and guides the
transformation of the grid infrastructure of the
typical American city into a vital social commons. The
multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it has
become a national movement for social and ecological
restoration operating in a landscape characterized by
isolation and compartmentalization. The project takes
Fritjof Capra's 'Tipping Point' as a model for
paradigm change by intentionally focusing upon
intersections in space and time. City Repair is
directly reclaiming those intersection points,
converting spaces of collision into places of
convergence, and opening the field for what
automatically happens when people reunite with their
Place: everything.

This presentation compares the historic settlement
patterns of village societies with the dominant forces
of Western colonization as a context for describing
City Repair's work. As revealed through this visually
stunning event, the multidisciplinary culture of City
Repair combines architecture, urban planning,
anthropology, community development, public art,
permaculture and ecological design in projects that
transform space and transfer power to local levels.
The presentation is chronological, proceeding from the
most elementary and accessible project scales to
enormous visionary collaborations involving thousands
of people. Each project restates the same essential
principles of localization, community participation
and placemaking, but the forms always change and grow.
As an overall movement, each project builds upon
previous successes to manifest larger and larger
impacts.

Through a restorative process in which citizens
re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons,
City Repair is engendering relationships that
revitalize the fabric of our local community within
the existing context of social isolation. By
re-asserting localized village patterns in the city
grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and
social foundation for sustainable culture.



 
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