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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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 […]

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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, […]

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By Aaron Bialick |
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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 […]

Celebrate PARK(ing) Day Tomorrow by Reclaiming the Curb

By Bryan Goebel |
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