What Are Expanding Pockets?

Pocket parks, also known as pocket parks, refer to small-scale urban open spaces that are often scattered in patches or hidden in urban structures to serve local residents. Pocket Park is a green planting of small plots, and is equipped with convenience services such as seats. Various small green areas, small parks, street gardens, and small community sports venues in the city are common pocket parks around.

Pocket park

Pocket parks have the characteristics of flexible location, small area, and discrete distribution. They can be seen in cities in large numbers, which is like an oasis in the desert for high-rise-cities, and can greatly change the urban environment. At the same time, part of the demand for parks in high-density urban centers is partially addressed.

Perey Park (5 photos)

The concept of pocket parks was first proposed in May 1963 at the New York Park Association's exhibition "New Parks for New York", and its original form was to create a patch-like pattern scattered in the center of high-density cities. Distributed small park (Midtown Park), or pocket park system.

On May 23, 1967, Paley Park on 53rd Street in New York, United States was officially opened. The advent of this new form of urban public space marked the official birth of Pocket Park. Perey Park responds well to Manhattan's conditions in size and function, and it is as important as Central Park in a unique way.

In 2018, at the south exit of Dongfu Shouli Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, not far from Beihai North Station of the subway, a small park of more than 800 square meters-Dongfu Shouli Pocket Park was newly built. Magnolia, pomegranate, persimmon trees, etc. are planted in the garden. Under the warm afternoon sun, old people in the hutongs gather under the antique pavilions and gossip is common. In order to expand the urban ecological space, Beijing plans to build 50 pocket parks and small green spaces in 2018, focusing on the central urban area, making full use of urban demolition, retreat, corner, abandoned, and unused land. green". ^[1]