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Park(ing) Day LA

Park[ing] Day Returns

By Eric Richardson — September 17, 2009 — 4 Comments

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Park[ing] Day L.A. returns for its third year on Friday, bringing a handful of pop-up park spaces to Downtown's streets and alleys. The event, intended to highlight the need for urban park space, was built around the idea of temporarily reclaiming parking spaces as green space. — Continued Inside...


Winding Down on Winston

By Ed Fuentes — September 21, 2008

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|Photo Gallery| The half-block of Winston used for DLANC's Park(ing) Day space on Friday won't be turning into an actual park any time soon, but one had to be struck by the way the space accomodated art, music, sports and community information with ease.


CRA Doesn't Have a Guerrilla Park

By Samantha Page — September 19, 2008

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|Photo Gallery| Outside the CRA offices at 354 W. 4th, a group of CRA planners and public affairs people are sitting in a park. They are not actually representing CRA. They are just a group of employees that heard about something cool going on in the neighborhood and wanted to join in. For "legal reasons" CRA is not officially sanctioning this display. (However, for the...


SWA Group Illustrates Auto Emissions

By Samantha Page — September 19, 2008

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|Photo Gallery| Thick smoke pours out of a cartoonishly gigantic exhaust pipe sticking out of a Mercedes SUV on the corner of 7th and Flower, where landscape architecture firm SWA Group has set up their Park(ing) Day LA park.


LACBC Site Shows Bikes Sharing the Street

By Eric Richardson — September 19, 2008
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|Photo Gallery| The Los Angeles County Bike Coalition's Park(ing) Day site on 1st street in front of the LA Times is geared toward cycles and not green space, but the installation's point about the shared use of the road ties in perfectly with the overall Park(ing) Day theme.


Winston Site Hosts 3-on-3

By Eric Richardson — September 19, 2008

Park(ing) Day Shots

|Photo Gallery| Around 11am this morning the Winston Park(ing) Day site played host to a game for the Skid Row 3-on-3 basketball league. The spirited game to fifteen took place in front of Crewest Galley, with a portable basketball wheeled over from Skid Row.


Meter "Fed" in Little Tokyo

By Ed Fuentes — September 19, 2008

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There is tempered guerilla action in Little Tokyo as Jocelyi Sia and Nicole Eng grabbed a spot in front of 345 E. 2nd St for Park(ing) Day LA. Equipped with green carpet, personal house plants, chairs, and a sign that dubs the space "Ladies who Lunch Park," they plan to make their green statement until 4pm.


Park(ing) Day Prep on Winston

By Eric Richardson — September 19, 2008

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Park(ing) Day LA is starting to get underway, as evidenced by this prep work on Winston. Green astroturf has been laid on the half-block site, with lines simulating diagonal parking spaces. In all, a dozen sites should see temporary green spaces around Downtown.


Guerrilla Parking Day Site Gets Un-Terminated

By Ed Fuentes and Eric Richardson — September 17, 2008 — 17 Comments

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Until this afternoon, landscape architecture firm Melendrez was planning to create a Park(ing) Day site outside its Olive street offices, just as it had last year. Then came the "No Parking" signs, reserving the curb lane for an entirely different sort of street use: filming.

Warner Bros Television is in town to shoot scenes for the "Sarah Connor Chronicles," and the city granted the production use of the curb lane from 6pm Thursday through 3pm on Saturday. After an initial scare, the Melendrez team was able to get in touch with the production and work out an arrangement that will keep their Park(ing) Day spot in its original place. — Continued Inside...


A Tiny Block, but a Multitude of Uses During Park(ing) Day

By Samantha Page — September 16, 2008 — 2 Comments

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In the photo at left, you can see the corner of Winston and Main streets on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It's empty.

On Friday, that same spot will be brimming with basketball, artists, academics and astroturf. The west end of Winston (between Werdin and Main) will be closed to traffic, and the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) will be playing host to a one-day park in what Councilmember Jan Perry describes as a "a can't miss neighborhood event that offers a little something for everyone!" — Continued Inside...