Parking Spot Squat
In June 2006, Transportation Alternatives volunteers staged a "Parking Spot Squat" in Brooklyn's busy Park Slope neighborhood. The volunteers "liberated" two parking spaces, providing amenities that allowed residents to sit and relax.
The demonstrations created a temporary, but much-needed public space.
The event caused many to question traditional notions of the way public space is reserved for automobiles, and why that space is turned over to drivers at such a low cost. Many similar events have followed, and REBAR sponsored an amazing display of public space reclaimation in San Francisco.
[...] to most people that it's the cars that are hogging all of our public space.Fortunately, another reclamation of curbside parking space is on the way. September 21 has been set as the date for International Park(ing) Day 2007. [...]
[...] would we call this scene today? Art installation? Political demonstration? Nuisance? This striking color photograph was snapped on Broome Street near Baruch Place (a [...]
[...] StreetFilms » Parking Spot Squat “If you do the math, at $0.25 for a half an hour, one parking space is $150 a month… this beats rent, we ought to live here for $150 a month. It’s bigger than my apartment.” [...]
[...] Planning Project and Transportation Alternatives. Streetfilms also has a video on last year’s Parking Spot Squat in Park Slope. [...]
[...] Streetfilms footage of last year's Parking Spot Squat [...]
[...] StreetFilms: T.A. Parking Spot Squat (June 2006) Rebar PARK(ing) Day 2006 (September 21, [...]