Mark Lakeman and Marisha Auerbach Talk – this Wednesday

Tomorrow night, 7:30pm on Wednesday September 28th 2011 L.A. Eco-Village is excited to host the return of Portland City Repair visionaries! Mark Lakeman is one of the most inspiring speakers I’ve ever heard. Tomorrow both he and Marisha Auerbach will give a presentation on how City Repair engages communities, makes great places, and transforms intersections [...]

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Intersection Repair Event 12 September 2009

We enjoyed another great talk by Mark Lakeman of Portland’s City Repair last Friday night, and on Saturday we were inspired by their example to paint a new intersection repair mural.  These photos are worth many thousands of words – thanks to Kathy Hill and Yuki Kidokoro for documenting the event!      There’s a lot [...]

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Intersection Repair Videos!

Portland City Repair’s Mark Lakeman will return to Eco-Village in two weeks. He’ll be speaking Friday September 11th at 7:30, then Saturday September 12th from 10am to 6pm he’ll be leading an intersection repair project here. For more event details, see this earlier post. Lakeman is an excellent speaker – whom I highly recommend. His [...]

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Mural Painting Street Party September 12th

Portland City Repair‘s Mark Lakeman is returning to Los Angeles in September. He’ll be speaking at eco-village on Friday September 11th then will lead an all-day intersection repair project on Saturday September 12th from 10am to dusk. The first time I heard Lakeman speak it really changed my thinking about public space and ways that [...]

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