aqt

Car-reduced quarters for a more livable city.

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 neighbourhoods for a liveable 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 goals: to bring about a higher acceptance and use of multimodal transport options, to significantly reduce individual car ownership and use, and thus to enable an upgrading of the space.

We exmine influencing factors from actors and networks, spatial and cluster structures as well as decision-making and planning processes. A special focus is on transdisciplinary research and transformative processes. Wherever possible, involved stakeholder interests, political hurdles and spatial quality will be taken into account. The individual work packages are framed by the hypothesis that the change to multimodal mobility should be understood as a "wicked problem" and should be investigated in the context of new modes of mobility, everyday routines and revitalised cityscapes. In this context, not only rational but also emotional or "soft" factors should be considered. Individual technical solutions have so far not initiated the necessary change towards an ecologically and socially sustainable traffic turnaround or have not led to a measurable reduction in individual motorised traffic. For this reason, aqt aims to open up design, traffic and use-related potentials for the transformation of traffic areas that are important for sustainable and climate-adapted urban development in the course of ongoing urbanisation. Thus, transferability to other cities 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 and decision-making processes.

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Summer in the city - from now on in the southern floodplain!

Last weekend our project aqt - car-reduced quarters for a more liveable city - began in the südliche Au and Guessing. Together with around 800 residents and passersby, musicians and artists, we celebrated the opening of the green street!