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3rd annual Park(ing) Day will go down on Sept. 17
Courtesy of Pam Zimmerman
3rd annual Park(ing) Day will go down on Sept. 17
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| Courtesy of Pam Zimmerman |
Remember Park(ing) Day, that whimsical time of year when bikers, architecture students, nonprofit workers, urban planners and other assorted car critics take over parking spots around the city in order to reveal what a world with a few less automobiles might be like?
I wrote about it in 2008, when it first took place in Philly:
The first Park(ing) Day took place in San Francisco in 2005. People were encouraged to claim a parking space, and cover it with bikes, grass or anything that wasn't a car, and pay the meter. The point was to legally demonstrate that automobiles dominate too much public land, and that it should be redistributed to parks, bike lanes and vegetation.
"In most cities, 70 percent of outdoor space is devoted to cars. But what makes a city great — culture, diversity, walkability — has nothing to do with a car," says Pam Zimmerman, the organizer of Park(ing) Day in Philly.
Zimmerman just e-mailed The Clog to let us know that Park(ing) Day will happen again, on Sept. 17, with takeovers in Center City, North Philly, Southwest Philly, Germantown, Northern Liberties and University City. Here's a list of the participants so far:⢠Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
⢠Community Design Collaborative
⢠Philadelphia City Planning Commission
⢠Philadelphia Water Department
⢠Pennsylvania Planning Association â Southeast Chapter
⢠Germantown Community Connection
⢠City Lights Network / Southwest CDC (Southwest Philadelphia)
⢠Planning Collective
⢠Arch Street Methodist Church
⢠University of Pennsylvania â Penn Design
⢠University of Pennsylvania â Urban Transit Group
⢠Southwest Community Development Corporation / City Lights
⢠SMP Architects
⢠Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects
⢠PostGreen Development
⢠Interface Studio
⢠Zipcar
⢠âFree Books Parkâ in Northern Liberties
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