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Hey, car driver! Crawl a few more times around the block: come Friday, cities across the globe will have --for a day-- a lot less spots for fossil-fuel-burnin, four-wheeled hunks of metal and plastic. In their stead, a tiny little oasis of a park. Its as if The Electric Companys Letterman, ripping the ing off the name of urban plannings replica Gucci watches biggest waste of space, had transformed something useful to one into something useful to many.The idea of temporarily transforming metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces, or temporary public parks, comes from the San Francisco-based arts collective REBAR.New York City has over 50 park(ing) spots lined up. Heres what it looked like last year:But the party is global: from Brisbane to Leeds to Tulsa, citizens will be staking a little claim to their cities. Want to reclaim some park(ing) land in your own community? Contact the sponsoring organization, the Trust for Public Land.--Matthew Fishbane
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