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PARKing Day

PARK(ing) Day 2024!

Happening worldwide, in-person on Friday, September 20.

Come play with us! BSLA would love to have you participate in one of our PARKing Day installations.

PARKing Day is a global event in which parking spaces are temporarily transformed into mini parks — happening this year for a whole weekend. ASLA chapters across the country are participating on Friday, September 20.

We’re organizing PARKing Day installations in Somerville, Amherst, and Portland.

Somerville - in front of Ball Square Cafe. 708 Broadway, Somerville, MA 02144

UMass Amherst - Thatcher Rd. across from Franklin Dining Hall

Portland - 485 Congress Street, in front of the Longfellow House and in collaboration with Portland Downtown

There are also PARKing Day installations on the Smith College campus in Northampton, and next to the Boston Architectural College on Newbury Street.

Please stop by and say hello! Stay for a few minutes — or a few hours — and help us spread the love about landscape architecture.

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Pictured: BSLA PARKing Day installation 2022, in collaboration with Boston Green Academy, Brighton, Mass. Once set up, activities invited teens to explore seeds and soils. Ninth graders led the setup, and they completely changed the street outside of their school for that day. Boston’s Deputy Chief of Urban Design, landscape architect Diana Fernandez, ASLA, stopped by to say hello.

Talking seeds

Setting up…

BEFORE

AFTER, with Boston’s Deputy Chief of Urban Design, Diana Fernandez, ASLA

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September 19

Western Mass Social + pre-PARKing Day party

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September 22

2024 Tour des Trees begins!