How might we enable urban mobility and to meet the growing challenges, such as climate emergency or social justice? What opportunities does change offer for a livable coexistence? In accordance with the Mobility Strategy 2035 and the Urban Development Plan 2040 of the City of Munich, the aim is to reduce individual car traffic and to look at the quality of public spaces in the pilot neighbourhoods Südliche Au and Walchenseeplatz.
From May 2023 to October 2023, various measures will be temporarily implemented and evaluated. During this time, further participation formats will take place in order to develop common transformation paths - research partners, municipal administration, industry and NGOs in cooperation with civil society. These will be further developed, evaluated and discussed by summer 2024. The project will end 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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Opportunities for participation in the Südliche Au and Walchenseeplatz neighbourhoods:
Sie leben oder arbeiten in der südlichen Au oder am Walchenseeplatz? Bitte nehmen Sie an einer kleinen small survey on the neighbourhoods and your willingness to participate .
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