Park(ing) day is a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people.

Get ready: Friday, September 20, 2024!

Add your project to the map above.

We encourage you to take part. See the How to Manual here for tips on how to get started. Once you’ve planned your Park(ing) Day installation, tag us @parkingday #parkingday2023 #reclaimthestreets

Access our Participant’s Care Package and kindly consider making a donation to support our ongoing efforts!

Why Park(ing) Day?

Park(ing) Day is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in the ongoing dialog around how our cities are designed and built. It began as a guerilla art project and act of design activism in a single parking space, and has grown into a global movement, inspiring the creation of “parklets” and COVID-era “streeteries” in cities across the United States and beyond.

First Park(ing) Day Installation.

In 2005 the Rebar design team equipped with 200 square feet of lawn, a 15–foot–tall tree, a rented park bench and the desire to exploit the metered parking space as a site for art, activism and cultural expression, created the first Park(ing) Day.

PARKING DAY FIRST SAN FRANCISCO REBAR

Creators

John Bela, Matthew Passmore, Blaine Merker, Teresa Aguilera (Rebar) and Andrea Scher, Gregory Kellett, Brady Moss and many more

Collaborators

ASLA, Spin, Parkade, SuperWorks, and to the thousands of people that have participated in Park(ing) Day over the last 17+ years. Thank you!

Allies

This list is on ongoing work in progress, please email us with updates: hello@myparkingday.org

ASIA

New Delhi

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

Japan

Singapore

AFRICA

North America

ASLA, Nationwide

The Trust for Public Land, Nationwide

Detroit

Washington, DC:

Hyattsville, MD

Portland

Lexington, KY

Los Angeles

Nashville, TN

Seattle

South America

Antarctica

Europe

Switzerland

Munich

Australia

Brisbane

“We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. We have our priorities the wrong way around (…) We are killing our cities.”

— Donald Shoup.

Original Park(ing) Day logo by Maki Kawaguchi

Original Park(ing) Day logo by Maki Kawaguchi.