About City Repair
The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating
public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the
places where they live.
With a mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of volunteer citizen activists, our many projects:
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educate people about why most
American neighborhoods are socially isolating and culturally inactive,
and how we can transform them from the grassroots, -
inspire people to both understand themselves as part of a larger community and fulfill their own creative potential, and
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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 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.
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