PARK(ing) Day
“See flexible parking solutions in action all across the city on PARK(ing) Day, the annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens temporarily transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks.”
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Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?
By Aaron Naparstek |
Park(ing) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, May 6, 2006. The sign says, "Public space reclamation in progress." Today is International Park(ing) Day, the day when urban dwellers all around the world reclaim on-street parking spaces for purposes more creative and life-affirming than private motor vehicle storage. If you found a bunch of kids playing in an […]
Park(ing) Day is Coming
By Aaron Naparstek |
Depressed about the direction Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is heading? Cheer yourself up by starting to plan for Park(ing) Day 2007. Friday, September 21 is the day when urban dwellers the world over pop quarters into parking meters and take over on-street spaces, temporarily transforming them into miniature parks, playgrounds, cafés and community spaces. […]
San Francisco’s Newest Public Space is in the Parking Lane in The Mission
By Matthew Roth |
Installation began yesterday on the 22nd Street and Bartlett "parklet." Photos: Matthew Roth. After the tremendous success of the trial sidewalk extension, or "parklet," on Divisadero in front of the Mojo Bicycle Cafe, San Francisco planners set their eyes on 22nd Street near Bartlett Street in The Mission, where they have re-purposed three parking spaces […]
More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle
By Aaron Naparstek |
I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]
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 […]
San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions
By Matthew Roth |
A photo simulation of the new Pavement to Parks public space in what was once two parking spaces in front of the Mojo Bicycle Cafe in NOPA. Image: RG Architecture. With the success of San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks trial plazas, the city is about to unveil its newest plan to use its streets for […]