Philadelphia Gets on the Parklet Train

Philadelphia's University City District debuts the city's first "parklet," the size of just a couple parking spaces. "In transferring a precious patch of public street from the car to the pedestrian, Philadelphia is embracing the latest urban trend. The pavement-to-parks movement began two summers ago in New York, when Mayor Bloomberg annexed an entire lane of Broadway for an archipelago of public plazas, and then jumped to San Francisco, where parklets were seen as a cheap way to create places to sun and socialize." Philadelphia's parklet cost $10,000, paid for by the William Penn Foundation.

SOURCE: philly.com, 8/4/11

URL: http://articles.philly.com/2011-08-04/news/29850967_1_spaces-parklets-parking-spots