Local businesses and community organizations can apply to host a parklet or street café for the 2024 season.

Restaurateurs are reconsidering the worth of their outdoor dining structures.

COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.

After nearly two years of dining and shopping in parking spaces outside of local businesses, Alexandria wants to start charging rent. City Council will review a staff proposal on Tuesday (March 8) to start charging annual rent to business owners for their use of parklets -- converted parking spac

What began in 2005 as Park(ing) Day evolved into part of a global movement for transforming city streets.

Who pays for parklets? What can they look like? Here’s your guide to SLO’s new permanent parklet program.

A spike in car ownership, dining sheds and the comeback of alternate-side parking are making it tougher than ever to find spaces.

PARK(ing) Day returns to the City and County of Denver as we join other cities around the world in temporarily reclaiming on-street parking spaces for people places, or “parklets.” PARK(ing) Day is an annual event that encourages businesses, community groups, and other organizations to reimagine parking spaces and public streets as vibrant, people-friendly places.

It may not be as busy, carefree, or easy to participate in as we've come to expect, but this year's patio season could just be the most joyful in T...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parklets have been deployed onto kerbside carparking spaces throughout Melbourne, Australia, by street-fronting hospitality businesses, to provide socially-dista...

But you still have a chance to raise one last glass in the award-winning space before Dec. 23.

The California Coastal Commission approves regulation forcing restaurants near the shoreline with street seating to replace lost parking spots or shut down al fresco dining

Restaurants and shopowners hit with hefty new fees and fines

Around 40 bars and restaurants have participated in the parklet pilot program so far.

By John Bela, ASLA On a clear fall day in 2005, a group of friends and collaborators from the art collective Rebar commandeered an 8-foot-wide by 20-foot-long metered parking space in downtown San …

By early 2020, San Francisco had created 70 parklets in every corner of the city, and the city’s parklet program had become a model around the world.

City Council is considering making the Covid-outdoor dining scene permanent in Philly. That’s great news for local businesses.

The pandemic forced cities to rewrite the rules of the road and engage residents in the process.

Parklets that became commonplace during the pandemic could become permanent fixtures on revitalized Main Streets across the state.

The debate onrenegotiating andredistributing publicspace represents, duringthis dramatic pandemic,a great resource.We discussed this withKristian Koreman,Fabrizio Prati, Gideon Boieand Ma Yansong.

The survey gauged close to 2,500 northeastern Illinois residents’ attitudes toward key quality of life factors, such as transportation, open space, and housing, and what they considered successes a…

Outdoor dining and slow streets programs are chipping away at Southern California’s deference to cars.

The argument against keeping outdoor dining as a part of our future cities

Instead of letting new spaces languish during “off hours,” let’s time share the public right-of-way throughout the day. by Josh…

The Open Restaurants program, founded during the pandemic, deserves to be a permanent part of the cityscape. Here are some common-sense steps.

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Why the well-being of cities depends on a people-first approach

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

New York City isn’t dead. Anyone who's enjoyed a beverage or a bite at one of the city’s hopping, vibrant Open Street eateries can tell you that. For

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...