[permaculture] City Repair Project, A Street Corner Revolution with Mark Lakeman Thur, Oct 4, 7:45pm, 2007, Santa Barbara CA

Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network lakinroe at silcom.com
Sun Sep 23 10:21:56 EDT 2007


City Repair Project, A Street Corner Revolution
Slide Show & Talk with Mark Lakeman
Thur, Oct 4, 7:45pm, 2007
Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
Donation $5


Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the 
grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons 
with Portland's City Repair Project ( www.cityrepair.org), with a 
lecture and slide show on Thursday, October  4th, at 7:45pm.

Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids 
and the intersections where our lives can converge. 
Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, 
anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and 
ecological design in projects that transform public space. Formed in 
1996, City Repair was conceived as an "anti-virus" to combat 
isolation and over-commodification of conventionally designed cities, 
by literally inserting villages into cities.

Trained as an architect, Mark Lakeman is a founding member of the 
City Repair Project, and the creative director of the ecological 
design firm Communitecture. Each Spring he coordinates the Village 
Building Convergence, an annual event sponsored by the city of 
Portland that brings architects, planners, and artists together for 
ten days of concentrated work with neighborhood residents and 
volunteers. He has traveled extensively in southern Mexico where his 
inspiration for community living came from living with traditional 
Mayan peoples.


The lecture and slide show take place on Thurs, October 4, at 7:45pm 
for a donation of  $5, no reservations are needed.  It will be held 
at the Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu 
Street, Santa Barbara, CA.  For more information call (805) 962-2571, 
or email margie at sbpermaculture.org. The SBCC Center for 
Sustainability and the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network sponsor the event.



**Also, special lunchtime program:

Nuts and Bolts City Repair with Mark Lakeman

For on the ground County and City Planners, politicians, community 
leaders and architects.
Noon -1pm, Thursday, Oct 4 , 2007, FREE
Santa Barbara Public Downtown Library, Faulkner Gallery










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