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- noun Plural form of
parklet .
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Examples
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Several restaurants, including Mojo and Tsunami Sushi, benefited from what are known as parklets, in which street-side parking spots are replaced with outdoor seating.
Some Left Out as Divisadero Corridor Shines Stu Woo 2012
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Gavin Newsom's "parklets" plan to turn two or three consecutive parking spaces into mini-parks around the city was unusual, wait until you hear the latest sites for new public parks: freeway off-ramps.
SFGate: Top News Stories Rache cityinsider@sfchronicle.com (Heather Knight 2010
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Bootstrap urbanity: My name for the ingenious efforts by architects and public space advocates to carve eddies in the urban swirl - from the "parklets" concept that is replacing parking spaces with bits of seating to more ambitious efforts where awkward intersections are being converted to "temporary" landscaped plazas.
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010
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Parking spaces are being turned into "parklets," with seating for passers-by (and, yes, patrons of nearby cafes).
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010
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Bootstrap urbanity: My name for the ingenious efforts by architects and public space advocates to carve eddies in the urban swirl - from the "parklets" concept that is replacing parking spaces with bits of seating to more ambitious efforts where awkward intersections are being converted to "temporary" landscaped plazas.
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010
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As with Castro Commons, the Noe plaza's only meant to be a trial, whether or not it's downsized to a couple sidewalk "parklets" flanking the street
Curbed SF Andy J. Wang 2010
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Parking spaces are being turned into "parklets," with seating for passers-by (and, yes, patrons of nearby cafes).
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010
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Although the suburbs of St. Louis are not remarkable, there are many attractive parks and parklets near at hand.
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First there were parklets, clearings placed on top of parking spaces.
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2011
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First there were parklets, clearings placed on top of parking spaces.
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2011
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