Future Cape Town, Blok and Young Urbanists propose 4 differents interventions during September 18th PARK(ing) Day.

Inhabitat hits the streets on Park(ing) Day 2012 to photograph the parking spot parks popping up around the world - from San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beyond.

Last Friday STUDIOS Architecture and SWA Group set out to create a temporary and reconfigurable architectural environment with low carbon impact and zero waste for (PARK)ing Day!

Setting up tiny parks in metered parking spaces, this growing global holiday asks people to reclaim the streets.

*I saw this Springtime installation during the Milan furniture week. I was much impressed. It rid the street of evil, bad-for-you cars and restored convivality and public space at a price-point of pretty much nothing. People took to them immediately; I never saw these person-parking areas without some people parked.This article has been reproduced in…

Photo: Mark Boster/LA Times Drivers looking for parking space are going to be dismayed, but the many San Francisco residents are enjoying this clever idea, a tiny "parkmobile" made from modified dumpsters: The two bright-red dumpsters, 16 feet long by nearly 6 feet wide and filled with greenery, have been placed in a busy downtown neighborhood where they throw a little shade, elicit regular double-takes and fill curbside spots that otherwise would go to cars. The grandly named…

parking day 2011: reclaimed plotter tubes used to create public space.

The city of Boston has been the stage for a long history of experiments with public space. Most notably, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the country – and perhaps the first public urban park in the world. Originally a shared cow pasture until overgrazing led to a real-life example...

Everyone is invited to the Free Opening Ceremony on Sept 15, 2017 at Noon to this year’s Pop Up Park that will transform Donaldson Street into a passeggiata, a pedestrian ally as a gathering place for people, which will be full of plants and seating, and will feature story times, music and other free events.