Wednesday, July 14, 2010

They unpaved paradise and put up a park

Bravo comment: Aside from having the coolest headline I've seen in a long time, I recommend you head over to WorldChanging.com and read the full article for a bright green spot in your day!

In San Francisco, a handful of parking spaces and public right-of-ways are being remade into mini parks and plazas. Some are lined with trees sprouting from old dumpsters, others are buffered from traffic with large, discarded pipes; inside the improvised borders, tables, small patches of grass and concrete slabs are arranged for seating.

These 'parklets' and plazas are part of San Francisco's new Pavement to Parks initiative, an attempt to transfer some of San Francisco's public space back to pedestrians.

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