Re-imagining Parking Spaces as People Spaces: Park(ing) Day returns Sept 20–22
Park(ing) Day returns to Toronto this year from Friday, September 20 to Sunday, September 22, 2024, transforming parking spaces across the city into pop-up parks and social spaces. For the 3rd year in a row, we are organizing this event and inviting citizens, artists, and urban planning activists to re-imagine public spaces through creative, temporary installations.
Park(ing) Day is a global event, held annually on the third weekend of September. What began in 2005 as a single installation in San Francisco by the design studio Rebar has since grown into a worldwide movement, with hundreds of cities participating across the globe. Park(ing) Day highlights the need for improving access to public open spaces in densely populated urban areas. The event promotes civic engagement and raises awareness about the need for more green and social areas in our urban environments. The ethos of Park(ing) Day is to celebrate the use of urban public space for people and challenge the dominance of the automobile in cities.
Join us Saturday, September 21 at our studio parking boulevard, located at 142 Westmount Ave., for some fun activities, starting at 10am to 3pm! Visit the Park(ing) Day website for a complete list of Park(ing) Day installations and activities.