I delete more e-mails and newsletter notices than I read.
Fortunately, one from Inhabitat made it through my delete frenzy, otherwise I would have never spotted PARK(ing) Day 2009 which proves the 1968 motto 'Under parking meters, gardens' to be true.
I could not say it better than the PARK(ing) Day manifesto so here it is:
"Originally created by Rebar,
San Francisco art and design collective, PARK(ing) Day is an annual,
one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens
independently but simultaneously temporarily transform metered parking
spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks."
See what happened (video above) in San Francisco in a previous year.
Happy PARK(ing) Day 2009 !
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