While access to outdoor play facilities and designated spaces is key, bringing people into those spaces is equally as important.
Tom Doust, founder of Pop up Parks
But there is a missing piece. While access to outdoor play facilities and designated spaces is key, bringing people into those spaces is equally as important. Here the notion of ‘build it and they will come’ applies not only to infrastructure but also to human contact.
We were thrilled to be part of London’s first Open Streets event on the last weekend in May. A large section of Great Suffolk Street in Southwark was closed for pedestrians and cyclists to participate safely in a range of activities, including a Pop up Park that occupied the space normally used by taxis, delivery vans and cars.