The link between tactical urbanism, curbside management, and dynamic transportation management

📙 The biography of Yuval Fogelson, a curbside mobility specialist, connects between tactical urbanism, curbside management, and dynamic transportation management. They all share an aim for good urbanism that benefits people. 

📌 Fogelson was born in Israel, experienced relocation as a child, studied architecture and urban design in the Netherlands and Australia, lived in South Korea, Israel, Brazil, and now lives in Canada.

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽 In Brazil, he founded together with several colleagues what became one of his great passions – tactical urbanism projects that create dramatic changes through simple and low budget planning moves. And yes, this was back in 2016, before tactical urbanism became a buzzword. Their collaboration resulted in the creation of the Urb-i – Urban Ideas website. Urb-i includes hundreds of inspiring public space transformations from around the world.

📚 From Brazil, Fogelson moved to Vancouver, Canada, and went back to school. He was accepted to the “Transportation Infrastructure and Public Space Labs” (TIPS Labs) at The University of British Columbia– an interdisciplinary research group that examines the potential and implications of future transportation infrastructure. There he conducted a study entitled: Transitioning into New Mobility: Future Curb Space Design (Please check out the video below for more details).

🗺️ Fogelson is currently a curbside mobility specialist at CurbIQ (located in Vancouver) a part of Arcadis IBI Group. The concept he developed in the research aligns with the implementation of a technological product that manages the curbside. Comprehensive urban curbside inventory mapping provides urban design technology dynamic and extensive information regarding curbsides usage throughout the city. One of its possible products is the construction of dynamic mobility hubs based on the curb’s easily changing uses.

💡 In other words, a type of dynamic and changing tactical urbanism, based on technology and information that enables the management of change and adaptation to the needs of cities that are becoming more crowded on the one hand, and offers multimodal public and collaborative mobility means, that require short and convenient transitions on the other. 

🚶🏻‍♀️ Over the next few years, I believe the curbside will be increasingly mapped and managed. Curbsides, including their inherent possibility of frequent changes, can be very beneficial to urban mobility and, as such, shouldn’t be ignored.