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12.6.4 Pocket-Parks in the Streets with Parking
Places (April 2014)
Pocket parks are representing the long-term cultivation of public-spaces. With these
installations we are trying to develop a method for revitalization and remediation of
degraded spaces in the built part of the city centre. The interventions are not only
artistic installations but also a serious search of new urban possibiliries for better
use of urban spaces. The main objective is to pay special attention and to reveal
selected city areas.
Pocket-parks are a kind of containers with the dimensions of a single parking
place (car) that can play a certain role, with its planted part, to mitigate the UHI
phenomenon on the micro-scale within the densely built area in the city centre.
Since May 2014 it is possible to enjoy on one of the pocket-parks, called
PARKplac (PARKplace) on four streets and one square. They are equipped according to the reuse concept. Local inhabitants and local merchants will take care about
them. With these installations we are addressing the citizens to the new approach to
the public space and spreading the 3R idea (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). According to
the 3R approach all materials that are used were taken from past installa
12 Urban Heat Island in the Ljubljana City
12.6.4 Pocket-Parks in the Streets with Parking
Places (April 2014)
Pocket parks are representing the long-term cultivation of public-spaces. With these
installations we are trying to develop a method for revitalization and remediation of
degraded spaces in the built part of the city centre. The interventions are not only
artistic installations but also a serious search of new urban possibiliries for better
use of urban spaces. The main objective is to pay special attention and to reveal
selected city areas.
Pocket-parks are a kind of containers with the dimensions of a single parking
place (car) that can play a certain role, with its planted part, to mitigate the UHI
phenomenon on the micro-scale within the densely built area in the city centre.
Since May 2014 it is possible to enjoy on one of the pocket-parks, called
PARKplac (PARKplace) on four streets and one square. They are equipped according to the reuse concept. Local inhabitants and local merchants will take care about
them. With these installations we are addressing the citizens to the new approach to
the public space and spreading the 3R idea (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). According to
the 3R approach all materials that are used were taken from past installa
12 Urban Heat Island in the Ljubljana City