Mark Lakeman
Mark Lakeman founded the City Repair Project (www.cityrepair.org) in 1996, which now operates with over 100 largely volunteer full-time and part-time staff, coordinators, and assistants. As both an organization and a larger movement, City Repair inspires and guides the transformation of the grid infrastructure of the typical American city into a vital social commons. By re-asserting localized village patterns in the city grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and social foundation for sustainable culture. Mark is now the principal of Communitecture, a private design firm specializing in ecological building and planning projects at many scales.