CIHT South East are delighted to welcome this webinar, exploring kerbside and roadspace and the lessons learned from San Francisco.
The kerbside and roadspace represent an important, often underutilised, piece of public realm. It is a contested space often put in the too-hard-basket by city leaders. With a backdrop of important guidance like LTN 1/20 and Manual for Streets, this session will explore how San Francisco has approached the challenge through the Places for People Ordinance and Shared Spaces Ordinance, as demonstrated through a thriving Parklet programme.
Robin Abad Ocubillo, Citywide Ombuds, City of Oakland USA will join us to discuss lessons learnt in San Francisco. Graham Pointer will introduce the presentation through a recap of the Placemaking Week Europe session ‘Global Kerbside’ that drew together kerbside practitioners from around the world.
We welcome a broad audience interested in how to approach strategies and planning for the kerbside at local government and consultancies; as well as practitioners focussed on implementation from the same organisations. A focus on parklets will also be of interest to the same groups.
Robin is a dedicated public servant with a passion for civic innovation in public space design, planning, evaluation, and policy. For over a last decade, Robin has led several of placemaking programs at the City and County of San Francisco during a periods of intensive growth. From 2020-2023, he served a 3-year term as Director of Shared Spaces San Francisco, helping communities leverage the public realm for economic recovery, social and psychological wellbeing. Shared Spaces program builds on Places for People, the first placemaking ordinance of its kind in the country to streamline government processes and lower barriers for communities creating and stewarding public spaces in underutilized streets and lots.
He ran the City's parklet program over several iterations, increasing the parklet population from thirty into the hundreds, expanding partnerships to cultural and community institutions, and overseeing the development of an award-winning Parklet Manual. He has also extensively developed research methods and metrics for human-use evaluation of public spaces and is co-author of the Global Public Life Data Protocol.
Robin is also producer and curator with the San Francisco Urban Film Festival, bringing communities together around civics and storytelling. He serves on the boards of Illuminate the Arts and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has edited an edition of Open Space Magazine at SFMOMA titled ‘Participatory Urbanism,’ which interrogated the promise and problematics of public space; asking who participates — and how — in constructing urban places.
In June 2023, Robin joined the City Administrator's office of Oakland, across the Bay from San Francisco, in a newly created role centering by citywide equity and neighborhood resiliency through civic innovation across departments and agencies.
Graham is passionate about improving how places work for people with a particular focus on access and mobility. He has over 20 years of experience working across the public and private sectors in Australia and the UK. Graham works with governments and private partners to design and implement place-based strategies that focus on people.
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