{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urbanism"],"cover":{"alt":"Urban Gardening: Pop-Up Park Chicago","height":1820,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-2.jpg","width":1840},"credit":"","date":"2012-05-22T18:46:48Z","description":"Pop-up parks are temporary green urban interventions. In Chicago, Joe Baldwin installed such a 280 square meters pop-up park for a few hours!","html":"\u003cp\u003eI’m pretty sure, some of you already heard about the international \u003ca href=\"/reclaim-the-streets-parking-day-2011/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePark(ing) Day\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, right?! The idea behind this interventional project is the create temporary parks throughout the cities around the world, but of course you can build those parks whenever you like\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026hellip;like Joe Baldwin together with the Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm did in Chicago back in 2011. For a few hours, he turned nearly an entire Logan Square street block into a 280 square meters urban park:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe night before the event, the company dropped off several pallets full of turf squares. (…) Shortly after 8 am, about a dozen volunteers began tiling the road with sod. While the Block Party Permit allowed Baldwin and company to ask neighbors to move their cars off the street, the city doesn’t enforce the policy. Participants simply landscaped around parked vehicles, which Baldwin says, ‘added to the surreal feeling of a park on the street’.\u003c/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-chicago/14821919/how-to-make-a-pop-up-park\"\u003etimeoutchicago.com\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreat idea, nice realization!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 1840px; --image-ratio: 1840 / 1820\" data-source-width=\"1840\" data-source-height=\"1820\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"1820\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_3c3ac993776caf49.avif 480w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_89c77552cbac1c3b.avif 960w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_b420782816e72a1d.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_8c1e35f914f4b6f7.webp 480w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_25fac0b392c93803.webp 960w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_148af16baba5fc52.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_87c2b01afbcbe74f.jpg\" srcset=\"/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_a9a77cf4bb888588.jpg 480w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_b8228c7b86885880.jpg 960w, /urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1_hu_87c2b01afbcbe74f.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1424\" alt=\"Pop-up park in Chicago\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003ePop-up park in Chicago\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n Via \u003ca href=\"http://urbanshit.de/urbanbio/?p=769\"\u003eurbanbio\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://popupcity.net/2011/07/chicago-pop-up-park/\"\u003epopupcity.net\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nI’m pretty sure, some of you already heard about the international [*Park(ing) Day*](/reclaim-the-streets-parking-day-2011/), right?! The idea behind this interventional project is the create temporary parks throughout the cities around the world, but of course you can build those parks whenever you like...\n\n...like Joe Baldwin together with the Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm did in Chicago back in 2011. For a few hours, he turned nearly an entire Logan Square street block into a 280 square meters urban park:\n\n*The night before the event, the company dropped off several pallets full of turf squares. (…) Shortly after 8 am, about a dozen volunteers began tiling the road with sod. While the Block Party Permit allowed Baldwin and company to ask neighbors to move their cars off the street, the city doesn’t enforce the policy. Participants simply landscaped around parked vehicles, which Baldwin says, ‘added to the surreal feeling of a park on the street’.* ([timeoutchicago.com](http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-chicago/14821919/how-to-make-a-pop-up-park))\n\nGreat idea, nice realization!\n\n![Pop-up park in Chicago](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/Pop-up-park-Chicago-1.jpg\u003e)\n\nPop-up park in Chicago Via [urbanbio](http://urbanshit.de/urbanbio/?p=769) and [popupcity.net](http://popupcity.net/2011/07/chicago-pop-up-park/).\n","tags":["Urban Planning","Urban Gardening","American Street Art"],"title":"Urban Gardening: Pop-Up Park Chicago","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-gardening-chicago-pop-up-park/"}