Share-It Square: Creating Neighborhood Gathering Spaces

Every year for the past two decades, the neighbors near Sherrett Street in southwest Portland repaint their colorful street intersection. Resident Mighk Simpson gives us a tour on painting day. On the sidewalk corners are spacious cob benches (with roofs), a children’s playhouse woven from tree branches and found materials, a beehive-shaped dispensary for the monthly neighborhood newsletter The Bee, a 24/7 Tea Station, and the first-ever “Little Free Library”, an innovation which has now gone viral around the world. Local residents are reclaiming this public space as a friendly places for people to get together, creating fertile ground for other collaborative projects - as well as having fun! These projects marked the beginnings of “City Repair”, a Portland urban permaculture movement which has spread throughout Portland and many other cities. [cityrepair.org/share-it-square]
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[@MarkLL1961]

Wonderful job, this is an excellent tour of the first-ever intersection that has been transformed back into the kind of cultural crossroads that our ancestors used to make as the center of their villages !! Bravo !!

[@marilynl4358]

Mark, this gives me great joy. Wonderful evolution of an idea. A fond remembrance of Deem's Farm.

[@seankingwell3692]

I hope this channel stays up forever. There are many people who can watch and can't comment on youtube because of the COVID cold war tactics. So our likes may not show up and trust me there are thousands millions of people surviving because of these video's. Thanks for maintaining the channel :)

[@seankingwell3692]

this is such a great idea, can't believe there are not more comments on here. Most neighborhood streets don't look this alive :) imagine more of this :)

[@seankingwell3692]

our neighbourhood still has two give a book share a book things. I don't personally give my books away like that and I don't read random novels much but I love that its there, and to me its also a start of something bigger. One thing I look forward to in death, is the stuff that gets to go to other people who need it :) It should be part of the goal of having "stuff" in the first place is where it is going after us :) gardens are forever :)