Grassroots Urban Placemaking with Mark Lakeman
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What if you got your neighbors together and occupied the public spaces on your book, transforming them into whatever you would all want it to be? What would you include? ...A solar-paneled tea station? A little free library? A mural? This is the type of urban placemaking that the City Repair Project in Portland, Oregon inspires and facilitates. In this Upstream Conversation, we spoke with Mark Lakeman an urban place-maker, permaculture designer, and community facilitator who co-founder of The City Repair Project. In the last decade, he has directed, facilitated, or inspired designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone. We spoke with him while he was visiting Santa Cruz about the capitalist history of the Urban Grid and how to reclaim our streets, revive community, and belong once more to place.
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| 0:11.0 | Oh. support. It's really interesting that the most walkable talkable landscapes in the world are also the ones where people have the highest rates of public health and the lowest rates of crime. |
| 0:43.3 | And then the urban structure of patriarchy are the ones where people live in the most desperation |
| 0:48.4 | with the highest crime rates and the most abysmal public health indicators of all. |
| 0:53.0 | So basically, as we do in this country, |
| 0:56.0 | we tend to live in landscapes and systems that are not designed by us, |
| 1:00.0 | so they are not made to be responsive |
| 1:02.0 | and they can't adjust according to our knowledge and |
| 1:04.9 | our lessons and are coming together to make decisions. In fact even the ability to |
| 1:08.9 | come together and make decisions is frustrated and then relegated to just voting. |
| 1:14.0 | You are listening to upstream. |
| 1:16.0 | Upstream. Upstream. Upstream. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Dela Duncan. |
| 1:21.0 | And I'm Robert Raymond. and that was Mark Lakeman the guest for this upstream conversation |
| 1:34.4 | Mark Lakeman is an urban place maker permaculture designer and and community facilitator. He is the co-founder of the City Repair Project in Portland, Oregon, and the principal of |
| 1:39.6 | the community architecture and planning firm communitecture. |
| 1:43.8 | We spoke with him while he was visiting Santa Cruz, California. |
| 1:51.6 | Welcome Mark to Upstream, thank you for this. |
| 1:55.0 | Thanks, Dela. |
| 1:56.0 | It's a pleasure. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm wondering if we can start with an introduction. |
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