http://www.parkingday.org/ SEPT. 19th 2008 Green Hooliganism
(Because cars suck!)
They are all over the city/ country / world now. I hear there is one in North Beach. I'm going to go check it out.
Invented by REBAR Group, Inc. - the crazy art/ designers who take on urban challenges. The idea: put parks, as in places to sit in the grass, in parking spaces, as in places to put a car.
We did a huge one last year in the middle of a gang infested neighborhood. See images.
It's a response to the over developing of pavement, and the eradication of places to chill out anywhere in a city without having to buy something while doing it.
75% of the surface of San Francisco is devoted solely to moving and parking cars. This is actually good compared to places like Phoenix and Huston which are upwards of 80 - 85% streets and parking lots. Really sick
Ingredients: Trees, grass, a parking spot. (Put $ in the meter) Rock band, BBQ.
