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Pop up living room in Perth City: PARK(ing) Day 2013

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In cities around the globe this Friday, artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered car parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day.

A team of Bachelor of Landscape Architecture students from The University of Western Australia (UWA) will be creating a temporary urban ‘park' as a part of Perth's PARK(ing) Day 2013. This year, the City of Perth has allocated two parking bays on William St, near the corner of Hay St, for the event.

The design of the UWA/AILA parking bay, entitled The Living Room, highlights the perceived need to encourage more people to live in the CBD. The students believe it's essential to increase the number of residents in Perth's city centre to create a safe, vibrant city which is occupied 24 hours a day. At the same time, amenity would need to be improved to provide for the needs of this increased population.

As well as inviting passers-by to sit and experience the city from a new vantage point, the UWA/AILA PARK(ing) bay aims to inspire consideration of this issue.

The UWA/AILA installation, ‘The Living Room', can be viewed for one day only, on Friday 20 September, on the corner of William and Hay St, Perth, from 9am to 5pm.
Location William St, Perth (near corner of Hay St)
Contact Winthrop Professor Tony Blackwell <[email protected]> : 6488 1566 or 0419 339 933
URL http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201309186070/events/pop-living-room-perths-parking-day
Start Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:00
End Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:00
Submitted by Laura Radovan <[email protected]>
Last Updated Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:58
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