Design
A Park That Moves Around the City
Design students and a nonprofit theater group created a “park-in-a-cart” to serve the fast-growing city of El Alto, Bolivia.
One bright July afternoon in El Alto, Bolivia, a playground paraded across a busy intersection.
In the country’s second-largest city—and, at approximately 13,500 feet, the highest major urban settlement in the world—desfiles are a frequent occurrence, even a way of life. On holidays, schoolchildren bearing patriotic red, yellow, and green flood the streets to the tunes of brass bands. Political demonstrations regularly take over the avenues. The renowned Sunday market, which stretches on for miles, can appear to be one long, slow parade.