In San Francisco, parkmobiles:
… say hello to “parkmobiles” – portable landscapes in red steel bins 6 feet wide and 16 feet long, intended as a shot of mobile nature offering passers-by visual relief from asphalt and concrete. There will be six such pieces arrayed on blocks around Yerba Buena Gardens, each with a different horticultural theme. …
The idea is to park them in one space for weeks or months, then move on. Benches invite viewers to linger, but space within the containers is off-limits.
The hope is that the bucolic bins will draw people onto blocks that otherwise get little foot traffic – and that the design and vegetation will survive the moves and the crowds.
In New York, pop-up farms:
In a complex just east of FDR Drive, rows of vegetables and herbs are thriving in black milk crates that can be picked up and transported at any time.
