Alex Reid

Yesterday was Park(ing) Day in Winnipeg, as Pedro reports.

National Park(ing) Day is a day to celebrate parks in the urban environment and promote the demand for more parks and greenspace, transforming public parking spaces into temporary public parks.

National Park(ing) Day 2008 is a concept created by San Francisco art collective Rebar in 2005 to re-imagine the potential of the metered parking space. In 2006, in collaboration with TPL, REBAR founded “PARK(ing) Day”: a global exploration of the creative potential of streets.

Awesome idea, and no surprise San Francisco was the city of origin!