Park(ing) Day: Turning Metered Parking Spots Into Public Parks (VIDEO)
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Hooray, one of my favourite days of the year: International Park(ing) day. This glorious anti-car festival only started in 2005, when a San Francisco-based group called REBAR decided that they would take over a parking space for a day and turn it into a park. So they did.
They brought along some astroturf and a bench and a tree and fed the metre all day long and had a lovely day with people asking what they were doing and why. As one of their members explained, they re-interpreted a parking space as a potential inexpensive short-term lease, and decided that it didn't just have to be for cars: the day was a success.
Videos below:
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First Posted: 09-19-08 09:15 AM | Updated: 10-20-08 05:12 AM