PARKING DAY LA

The road is America's largest public space. There are 3,981,512 miles of public road in the US, roughly 69 feet (.0132 miles) for each person in the country. Yet, we rarely treat the road as a public space. In celebration of Park(ing) Day 2008, the 'drive-by, walk-in' capitalized on this untapped social infrastructure, linking the public space of the road with the public space of the sidewalk.

In 2005, the Rebar group, a creative collective out of San Francisco, started Park(ing) Day by transforming a single metered parking spot into a park-for-a-day in an effort to make a public comment on the lack of quality open space in American cities. Now Parking Day is a global one day event.

On September 19th, 2008 UCLA students, sponsored in part by cityLAB, participated in Park(ing) Day LA.

http://parkingdayla.com

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