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Create your own PARK(ing)

Posted in Cool, Entertainment by Derek at 12:00 pm
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An awesome urban endeavor exploiting the decreasing amount of “personal” space in the concrete oasis that is our world.

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PARK(ing) is an investigation into reprogramming a typical unit of private vehicular space by leasing a metered parking spot for public recreational activity.

Still wondering what PARK(ing) is all about? Individuals in the San Francisco area decided to rent the maximum two hours alloted by municipal parking meters and created temporary makeshift “parks”.

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2 Responses to “Create your own PARK(ing)”

  1. Hitsuji says:

    Very nice i must say, turning a parking space into a park-ing space. Here in Cork, Ireland, we have a system called Park’N'Ride where you park in designated parking spaces outside the city and take a bus into the city. I wouldn’t mind turning this into a temp makeshift Park’N'Ride Prostitute spot ;)

  2. Derek says:

    see for a minute there i was abou to say that park n’ rides are nothing new stateside…

    then i read that you wished they could be turned into sex-lots… hmm. i don’t think anyone would ever end up going to work.

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