Park(ing) Day T-Shirt Design Contest Deadline

"Design a T-Shirt for Park(ing) Day and you could win $1,000. Contest ends June 29, 2009. Full contest details here. "PARK(ing) Day" is an annual event where citizens transform metered parking spaces into temporary parks and other types of social places – from parking spaces to people places! What began as an experiment in San Franciso in reclaiming and remixing public space has grown into a global phenomenon: PARK(ing) Day 2009 will be on Friday, September 18."

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PARK(ing) Day

By Stan Parkford |
From Park(ing) Day: Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at at time. PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, […]

PARK(ing) Day 2015

By Aaron Bialick |
Photo via SPUR From Park(ing) Day: Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at at time. PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San […]

Park(ing) Day

By Aaron Bialick |
Providing temporary public open space . . . one parking spot at at time. PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single […]

Park(ing) Day 2012

By Robert Prinz |
From parkingday.org: PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Since […]

PARK(ing) Day

By Michael Rhodes |
"Join the SFBC at Parking Day – volunteer to help plan, set up and dismantle the SFBC PARK(ing) spot. Email marc@sfbike.org to volunteer. The SFBC will also be setting up a very special Energizer Station on PARK(ing) Day to showcase our fantastic outreach program to visiting bicycle and walking advocacy groups. PARK(ing) Day is an […]

Streetfilms: PARK(ing) Day 2009 in San Francisco and New York

By Bryan Goebel |
San Francisco and New York were blessed with gorgeous weather Friday, which made for glorious PARK(ing) days in both cities. In San Francisco, upwards of 34 metered parking spots were transformed into temporary parks, on-street bike parking demonstrations, cafe seating and other public space reimaginings. New York, writes Streetfilms director Clarence Eckerson, had about 50 […]