Pop-Up Placemaking Recipes for Parklets Publications and Resources

Pop-Up Recipes for Parklets

3 demonstration projects provide parking for people rather than cars

Parklets can be created with little more than paint, plywood and some decorative accessories. This photo album is an excerpt from , a free publication by AARP and the planning and design firm Team Better Block. All photos by Team Better Block

Art Parklet

A parklet can become almost anything its creators want it to be. This maritime-themed parklet features a calm sea of paint, a sailcloth for shade and seating created by slicing a discarded wooden rowboat in half.
Greensboro, North Carolina

Mike Crate Parklet

A parklet is a street space, typically the size of one or two parking spots where people — rather than cars — can park themselves and relax. This parklet turned hard plastic milk crates into seating and display planters.
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Play Parklet

Children can play in the street if a parking spot is transformed into a contained play space. The one shown here is set up as a futsal (aka small soccer) court.
Albuquerque, New Mexico Find "recipes" for how to create the projects shown above:
Page published November 2019

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