Open space, anti-car activists take note! September 18 is your day to ‘take back the streets’, or at least the edges of them, by staking your claim to a parking space and turning it into your own little piece of green heaven.

Originally created by Rebar, a San Francisco art and design collective, PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day, global event where urban creatives transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces, or little temporary public parks. It’s the kind of thing that’s hard to describe until you see it, but an online photo search of Google Images (using search term “parking day San Francisco”) brings up photos of pirate ships parked curbside, strips of sod lined with benches, giant potted trees and formiums, and mini playgrounds with tan bark and swing sets.

Park(ing) day has become such a phenomeenon, that ReBar launched a social networking  website to expand their program internationally, to “facilitate sharing the collective knowledge and experience of participants worldwide.” To get on board, just logon and follow the instructions and learn how to “Park” it.

http://my.parkingday.org/

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