A2: Skatepark

On the Ann Arbor Skatepark site, Trevor Staples posts a report of the group’s Oct. 18 design workshop, which featured Wally Hollyday, a skatepark designer from California: “Mr. Hollyday started the event with a brief presentation about how his parks incorporate creative thinking about everything from environmental impact to public art. He’s particularly interested in skateparks as nuclei of communities. He thinks of his parks not just as (eminently) skateable surfaces, but as gathering places for people of all kinds: he has built parks (e.g., Nashville) that ring green spaces where families can picnic while their children skate, and others (North Las Vegas) with built-in amphitheater spaces that can be skated or used for public concerts and performances, etc.” [Source]