Park(ing) Day 2008
So, imagine walking over to your seventh-floor window in your downtown San Francisco office, taking a peek at the business below and finding a park, complete with benches and grass, suddenly erected on the side of the street … Mission Street, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.
Yeah, kinda weird. Turns out it was a stunt repeated in cities all over the world, called Park(ing) Day. Pretty cool, actually. It started in San Francisco three years ago as a guerilla project done by REBAR, a local artists group, as a way to draw attention to the need for more public space in cities. The idea flourished and went global. I took the opportunity to interview Jake Gilchrist, a project manager with the Trust for Public Land, who was manning the Mission Street site to find out a bit more about the project:
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