Urban “Green Living Rooms” Bring Happiness to City Corners

In Xi’an’s Yanta District, small, well-designed pocket parks are quietly enriching urban life. These compact green spaces, often tucked into street corners, provide convenient places for residents to relax and serve as neighborhood “forest oxygen bars” and urban “green living rooms.”

Metro Pocket Park

These tiny spaces not only improve local ecology and enhance the streetscape but also offer places for the elderly to relax and exercise, provide safe play areas for children, and create spaces for young people and neighbors to relax, meet, and connect.

An L-shaped pocket park

A long and narrow pocket park

An aerial view of a pocket park