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The Organic City is a community storytelling project focused on the downtown Oakland areas surrounding Lake Merritt. We encourage you to find and tell stories about local places through this website. These stories form the basis for mobile media that can be experienced while walking around the city.  more »
 
The Organic City won an IMA Outstanding Achievement Award, with an overall score of 467.  more news »
 
 
View a QuickTime movie showcasing samples of The Organic City's video stories.
 
 
 
 
North Lake Merritt Bench Crone by writergrll
Whenever you get there, she sits on her bench surrounded by a shopping cart and black garbage bag filled with acorns, eucalyptus leaves, her flesh-colored bandages— whatever she finds gets stuffed into a...

Just a Reminiscence by aleximou


Bruce Lee’s Studio by shambo


 
Storytelling has been used to entertain and communicate ideas for thousands of years. more »
 
The Organic City focuses on stories relating to downtown Oakland, California, particularly the areas surrounding Lake Merritt. more »