City Repair & Urban Renewal with Activist Architect Mark Lakeman

[ $20 if purchased by 09.09.09 ]

Project Butterfly presents Mark Lakeman, Co-Founder of the City Repair Project of Portland, Oregon [www.cityrepair.org]

City Repair & Urban Renewal
A conversation and presentation by Mark Lakeman on the urban transformation work of City Repair.org

The City Repair Project emerged in Portland, Oregon 13 years ago as a guerilla project for transformative urban insurrections. These have included radical cultural buildings with the highest natural and recycled content in the USA, dozens of street intersections transformed into community-designed public squares, villages designed and built by homeless people, fabulous permaculture installations in strategic public places, the Portland DePave movement, and an incredible diversity of innovative ecological installations across the whole geography of Portland called the Village Building Convergence. Since 1996, over 200 projects have emerged in Portland, Oregon alone as well as dozens of other cities across North America.

Mark will share his experiences in Portland and other cities with our Los Angeles' community, so that we can learn, develop and apply these ideas towards making Los Angeles a more sustainable city.

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and dialog.

Contribution ::
$20 if you purchase by 09.09.09, $25 thereafter.
A delicious light, vegetarian dinner and drinks included.

Location:
Project Butterfly Loft
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles CA 90013
[c/s Alameda
between 2nd & 3rd