Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: Pop-Up Playgrounds

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

An interesting article in today's New York Times on ways to make our streets 
useful for more  than traffic. Since cohousers know how to organize, this would 
seem to be a perfect task for improving neighborhoods.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/presto-instant-playground.html?src=recg

> During a two-month period last year, seven civic coalitions in New York 
> neighborhoods like East Harlem and the South Bronx got permits from the city 
> to close certain local streets to traffic for designated periods of time — 
> say, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on a summer weekday. Working with the police 
> and other city agencies, they re-designated the areas as temporary “play 
> streets,” encouraging neighborhood children to use them for exercise and 
> offering a range of free games, athletic activities and coaching.
> 
> Call them pop-up playgrounds.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
"Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert 
Einstein