Blog Posts tagged: Park(ing) Day
Park(ing) Day 2018 – Reimagining Robson Street
Join us next Friday, September 21 on the 1000-block of Robson Street (at Burrard) for our 2018 Park(ing) Day intervention! We’ll be taking a few street parking spaces and transforming them into a sweet public space for you to enjoy... Continue reading »
Parklets For People: Reconsidering the Parking Space as a Small Urban Park
By Jada Natalie Stevens In the 20th century, we built cities around a grid of car-accessible spaces. When roads were planned, on-street parking was incorporated into the outside lane, offering parking in close proximity to businesses, homes, and services. It... Continue reading »
Park(ing) Day Special: Vancouver’s first Bike-in Movie Night
On Friday, September 19, the Vancouver Public Space Network presents Vancouver’s first “Bike-in Movie Night”, a public installation offered as a part of Park(ing) Day—an annual worldwide event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into... Continue reading »
Cool public space and urban events. An awesome chance to lend a hand!
Hi everyone, September is upon us, and that means a new round of exciting late-summer and fall public space activities. We’ll be reporting out on many of these in our next full-length Public Space Newsletter; however we wanted to let... Continue reading »
A short, sweet video on the VPSN’s 2013 PARK(ing) Day event
Big thanks to VPSN volunteer and City Studio Alumni GP Mendoza for making this short video of our PARK(ing) Day intervention on Robson Street.... Continue reading »