Pop-Up Placemaking Recipes for Parklets

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Parklets can be created with little more than paint, plywood and some decorative accessories. This album is an excerpt from The Pop-Up Placemaking Tool Kit, a free publication by AARP and

the planning and design firm Team Better Block.

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. 

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.

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. 

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Page published November 2019

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