Park in a Truck Initiative
Download the DIY Toolkit
With Park in a Truck DIY Toolkit, you can design, build and sustain your own unique greenspace for your community. The Toolkit is easy to follow, easy to build and easy to maintain – download it today!
Park in a Truck allows communities to better themselves, and actually serves residents rather than displace them.
Park in a Truck Empowers Communities
Park in a Truck enables communities to design, build, and sustain their own park.
Design
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Park in a Truck Program Transforms Urban Green Spaces in Philadelphia with help of Neighborhood Youth
The Park in a Truck program is using urban green spaces to transform neighborhoods with the help of young people. But what is Park in a Truck? With Park in a Truck DIY toolkit, you can design, build and sustain your own unique green space for your community.
Landscape Architecture Program Director Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Grant
Kimberlee Douglas, Jefferson’s landscape architecture program director, has recently joined the next cohort of Interdisciplinary Research Leaders with a Robert Wood Johnson grant supporting the Park in a Truck initiative.
Transforming Vacant Lots into Beautiful Parks in Philadelphia
The corner of 38th and Melon Streets is the subject of Thomas Jefferson University's "Park in a Truck" program, which enables community leaders like Drummond to organize and build green gathering spaces on previously empty land.
Park in a Truck on WHYY's Movers and Makers
"Park in a Truck” is a project developed by Kimberlee Douglas with her students at Thomas Jefferson University, where they created a DIY Toolkit for communities.
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Melon Street Park
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Cecil Street Community Garden
Including...
- City of Philadelphia
- Empowered CDC
- National Wildlife Federation
- John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
- Mantua CDC
- Audubon Mid-Atlantic
Dream. Build. Sustain.
Professor Kimberlee Douglas, Director, Landscape Architecture Professor at the College of Architecture & the Built Environment, started Park in a Truck in 2019. Students at Thomas Jefferson University Landscape Architecture Program learn how to build parks within Philadelphia communities.
By donating to Park in a Truck’s mission, communities can build green networks established through low-cost fast-turnaround renovations of under-utilized lots.
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