Pocket-Park

A pocket park ( German mutatis mutandis: vest-pocket park, also pocket park) is a small landscaped area that lay before mainly unused or interrupted as a "dead" angle in cities. The value of urban space is increasingly recognized and - often through grass root movements - converted into habitable spaces. Are possible in this case both the system easier beds as well as artistically and architecturally ambitious landscape solutions. Garden designers and visual artists present their work often free of charge. The increased attraction of the residential environment benefits not only the direct neighbors; also is prevented through designed and maintained urban spaces of urban neglect, vandalism or wear / Pamper.

Lately smaller green spaces are also used deliberately to design and loosening of new areas, such as from conversion areas of former industrial sites, railway areas, etc.. They serve the planned residential and office environment improvement and provide often a marketing-relevant added value for the land and property developers dar. Examples include the pocket parks in the office Location Phoenix -West ( Dortmund) and the somewhat finished shopping connecting parks between Rebstockpark, Europe garden and Gallusviertel located the under construction European district (West) in Frankfurt am Main.