How must urban mobility in the neighborhood be designed in order to meet the growing challenges such as climate change and social justice in an increasingly densely built-up city? A redistribution of the available open spaces is necessary. Together - with local stakeholders - we are looking for solutions as to what urban neighborhoods can look like in the future. What opportunities will this create for the neighborhood? How can mobility in the neighborhood be made fairer and safer and at the same time be convenient? Together, we will develop various building blocks of neighborhood development are developed and tested in order to ultimately achieve a modified neighborhood model. We research processes and measures and evaluate them with a view to transdisciplinary cooperation and future challenges of urban and mobility design.
From June 2023 to October 2023, various measures were implemented and evaluated in the Walchenseeplatz (Landlsstrasse) and Südliche Au (Kolumbusstraße) districts. During this time, further participation formats took place in order to develop transformation paths together with research partners, municipal administration, industry and NGOs with civil society. Thanks to a very high level of participation and national media coverage, comprehensive research data was collected. This data will be analyzed, evaluated and discussed by summer 2024. The project ends in October 2024.
Research approach
Car-reduced neighborhoods for a livable city (aqt) is one of three MCube lighthouse projects. The aqt project team is developing and testing a spatial and transport concept for Munich with the aim of achieving greater acceptance and use of multimodal transport options, significantly reducing individual car ownership and use and thus enabling the area to be upgraded.
The influencing factors of actors and networks, spatial and cluster structures as well as decision-making and planning processes are examined. A special focus is placed on transdisciplinary research work and transformative processes. Wherever possible, stakeholder interests, political hurdles and spatial quality are taken into account. The individual work packages are framed by the hypothesis that the transition to multimodal mobility should be understood as a "wicked problem" and should be examined in the context of new mobility modes, everyday routines and revitalized cityscapes. Not only rational, but also emotional or "soft" factors need to be considered. In view of the fact that individual technical solutions have not yet initiated the necessary change towards an ecologically and socially sustainable transport transition or have not led to a measurable reduction in individual motorized traffic, the aim is now to open up design, traffic and use-related potential for the conversion of traffic areas, which are important for sustainable and climate-adapted urban development in the course of ongoing urbanization. Transferability to other cities therefore also plays a central role in the project. The research partners gain process knowledge and evaluate this in relation to future teaching, research and planning projects as well as decision-making processes.
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