City Repair Project

In My eyes a neighborhood community should consist of kids playing outside with each other, cookouts on regular basis, and all around trust in your neighbors down the road. The City Repair Project is one of those projects that gives the extra push to accomplish that. By going to their website, City-Repair, I learned a little bit more. They started with the vision of repairing areas, neighborhoods in particular, with an ecologically artistic twist that we see as painted intersections. With this they attract a huge volunteer base that helps the community regain lost communication and culture. This neighborhood project is called ‘Intersection Repair.’ Another major aspect of the group is Village Building Convergence (VBC). They have a 10-day event coming at the end of the month that features speakers, music, and food. The gathering spreads the word about sustainable life style and community enrichment activities. These are only a couple aspects. They are also involved in Earth Day, local workshops, and placemaking.

I think UNL could do something like this just on a smaller scale. Maybe start by painting some of the side of buildings around campus or paint the sidewalk like the yellow brick road. There are enough cracked roads, sidewalks, and new construction where something like this can be done. Besides the event that will bring people together the after effects of the paintings will for sure be ‘awed’ about by many passer-byers. My brother lives 20 blocks away from one of the painted intersections and he says sometimes when he passes it on his bike he sees people conversing about it and pointing at their favorite spots. All we need is that little push by the public that the City Repair has and that is why they are so successful.

If the Links dont work here is the City Repair web-site - http://cityrepair.org/
                                                      Placemaking site -     http://cityrepair.org/about/how-to/