Mark Lakeman and City Repair

I would like to share with you a video I created today with Mark Lakeman, designer activist, and Joe Le Sac, videographer, in response to an open TED talk audition to create a one minute video that has a great idea worth spreading, and uses an innovative visual presentation technique. My goal is to help get Lakeman up on stage for a TED talk, to discuss the great things that City Repair is doing to help communities take back their neighborhoods through the participatory creation of public spaces.

I believe that what City Repair is doing is the first step on a journey that will eventually reorganize American cities around great public spaces, clustering services, stores, and institutions into cohesive nodes that act as a public stage for daily life, promoting interaction, community, and democracy.