Pop-Up Placemaking Recipes for Parklets

Parklets can be created with little more than paint, plywood and some decorative accessories. This album is an excerpt from The Pop-Up Placemaking Tool Kit, a free publication by AARP and the planning and design firm Team Better Block.

Art Parklet

A parklet can become almost anything its creators want it to be. This maritime-themed parklet features a calm sea of paint, a sailcloth for shade and seating created by slicing a discarded wooden rowboat in half.

Greensboro, North Carolina | Photo by Team Better Block

Milk Crate Parklet

A parklet is a street space, typically the size of one or two parking spots where people — rather than cars — can park themselves and relax. This parklet turned hard plastic milk crates into seating and display planters.

Fort Wayne, Indiana | Photo by Team Better Block

Play Parklet

Children can play in the street if a parking spot is transformed into a contained play space. The one shown here is set up as a futsal (aka small soccer) court.