Category Archives: Parks

How to clean up a city park: send in the mimes

Are your city’s public parks spilling over with vagrants, junkies, and hookers? Here’s an idea that could only originate on the West Coast: pay people to hang out in them. Call it preventive busking. Last week Seattle began paying street performers to busk in five urban spaces and parks, apparently hoping to liven up the […]

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