Late last year there was a bit of blogospheric hubbub about Park(ing), a nifty public art/activism/event/thingy whereby a parking space is colonized and made into a temporary, impromptu public park, with grass, a potted tree, and a park bench. (It stays that way as long as passer-bys are willing to keep feeding the meter.) I love the idea, but I never got around to posting about it.
And look, I blew it again! Yesterday was Park(ing) Day, and NPR did a nice little story about it, and me, well, I slept on it. Next year!
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milosonthemoon Posted 11:44 pm
23 Sep 2006
Better hope it doesn't catch on too far though.
It'd be too easy to imagine some parallel sooniverse where it's decided that parking space is the natural, default urban environment and where those who wish for the luxury of vegetation would have to rent out green, rectangles of recreation segments by the half hour.
Anyway, does the pickup truck in the left of the picture belong to the park activists?
Milo
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