Where is your favourite place to go for a walk or to meet friends? Which routes and places do you avoid?
With these and other questions, the 15minESTATES project („Co-creating Spatial Strategies for Just and Sustainable Mobility in Large-Scale Housing Estates“) started its field phase. Over the next three years, the project team aims to investigate what requirements and strategies are needed to implement the 15-minute city concept in large housing estates.
As part of a neighborhood event in Halle-Neustadt, there was a district walk where residents shared their views of the area. The walk was also used to conduct initial experiments to collect geodata using OpenStreetMap tools. At the joint picnic afterwards, the participants marked their favourite places on a map and also explained where there is still room for improvement in Halle-Neustadt. Using the so-called ‘flower of proximity’, participants were able to visualise which supply facilities or services they would like to have in their immediate residential environment and for which a greater distance would be acceptable.
The City of Halle (Saale) with its large housing estate Neustadt is the German case study in the 15minESTATES project; which is part of #DUTPartnership. It is also analysing large housing estates in Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary and the Netherlands. Halle-Neustadt serves as a pilot area. Different formats for the organisation and implementation of co-creative approaches and participation formats are used here. The experience gained by the project team will be used to support the partners in the other case study areas.
