This morning, WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on Park[ing] Day, a effort by several local architects, designers, urban planners and artists to occupy parking spaces throughout Center City and transform them into tiny 8 foot by 20 foot parks.  Alan had a post about it at the It’s Our City blog yesterday.  His post included information from a chat he had with Michele Masucci of The Information Technology and Society Research Group at Temple.  You can follow her experience with one of her own micro parks at her blog.

Anyway, I’m hoping to get out of the office today to check out some of these little parks and share the experience with you later this afternoon, perhaps even take some pictures.

In the meantime, (or in lieu of that since who knows what will come up for me today?), perhaps you’d enjoy sharing some of your own comments about this effort.  Did you see one of the parks and actually take the time to enjoy it?  Describe it for us.  If you take a picture and can share it with us either through Flickr or by email, feel free to send the link or email the picture to me at dpohlig [at] whyy.org.  Please include the location and, if possible, names of folks in the picture.  Oh, and remember to help out by dropping a quarter in the meter!  We don’t want anyone’s parks to get a ticket from the PPA.

In the meantime, here are some other useful links about this event:

National Park[ing] Day with links to news stories and background information

The Philly Park[ing] Day blog

Rebuilding in the Urban Space wrote a quick blurb about this effort

Via Michele Masucci’s blog, a Google Map showing several Philly Park[ing] Day locations and their sponsors

And Philebrity’s unique musings on the event

Now go out and parallel park your butt into one of those parks!