All Things Urban

The experiential aspect of cycling is an essential part of planning for a bicycle-friendly city. The act of cycling is one of human movement and perception. Despite this, professional planning practice often overlooks it. This course equips urban mobility professionals and activists to illuminate cycling experience in their work. Learners will explore what cycling experience is, and be presented frameworks for identifying, communicating and evaluating it. They are guided through cases in both a mature cycling context and in a car-oriented context, and finish by conceptualizing or evaluating cycling experience in their own city or town.

• Urban mobility professionals from a variety of roles (e.g. engineers, planners, designers, project managers, and decision makers) ready to relate their work to the end user’s experience.
• Private, public, and nonprofit professionals.
• Students interested in learning about the application of user experience in mobility planning.

Some background in cycling or urban planning and an interest in the human experience; or a background in user experience or social science and an interest in cycling.

BUX is on a mission to change the way bicycle infrastructure is designed & made so that it is more user-friendly. We help urban mobility professionals and organizations learn how to think from the perspective of diverse end users of the street. We envision cities where cycling is an inclusive, accessible everyday form of transportation that fits into people’s lives and benefits all.

BUX offers trainings (both online and on-site) and case-specific advice. If you want to understand the ‘why’ - the mechanics behind why some infrastructure works while others will not be used- we invite you to explore our open courses and methods. Our goal is to equip you with the tools and mindset to make change in your city and working context.