2024-11-14T21:40:00-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/20653569/today-is-park-ing-day-2011 Alexander Walter 2011-09-16T15:07:07-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8c/8cf8bc49b20b6c6426289daad35fbf9a?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Park(ing) Day is an international celebration of alternative street design, which started in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Now it's a worldwide phenomenon, and today New Yorkers will transform more than 30 boring parking spots into temporary parks.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Last year, <a href="http://parkingday.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PARK(ing) Day</a> transformed 850 metered parking spots into temporary parks in 183 cities in 30 countries on 6 continents.</p>