Parklet – Metuchen, New Jersey

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A temporary park was built as a demonstration project with support from AARP New Jersey in October 2017. It remained on Main Street for a week. What this intervention allowed was to demonstrate how a widened area improved glossary/circulation/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="11ca367e21ece4bb81fbe38ed2f3bfa0" target="_blank" >circulation by giving space for pedestrians to walk by on a crowded sidewalk.

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Volunteers rapidly led the build over a 5 hour period, iterating aspects of the design on the spot in response to site constraints and feedback from passersby.