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Lock-in Cluster: Attitudes · Characteristics of the Alternative · Governance incumbency · Lack of Motivation/Intention & Habits · Perceived Experience & Evaluation · Personal and Social Beliefs · Political agency · Spatial Organisation · Transport infrastructure and street design

15min-City online Maps

The map shows how close services are if one lives in different areas of the city: in red areas the time needed to access the closest services is on average higher than 15 minutes, while the blue are 15-minute areas. We consider the average time of accessibility to the closest 20 POIs.

Centralized participation plattform

"Mitgestalten.wien" is an example for a centralized participation plattform. We used it to run a survey for Unlock15 in Vienna about the future development of a street. "decidim.org" and "govocal.com" are plattforms that can help you set up a centralised participation plattform.

Collaborative heat maps

Websites like mapperoni and uMap let you create maps with layers in a minute, embed them in your site or share them with others to contribute. An example: The urban design office prostorož invited citizens of Ljubljana in 2020 to vote for locations they experience as hot. In three weeks, they cast around 700 votes. The data was consistent with the locations of heat islands measured by satellite thermal imaging. The responses showed that people change routes and habits in the summer or avoid certain locations in the city altogether due to the heat. Respondents also suggested their own cooling measures - they want more and bigger trees, less asphalt, less concrete, and less parking spaces. This map was then published in newspapers and reached a big audience.

Community mapping

Collaboratively mapping maps about a neighbourhood can shed light on factors that influence everyday transport-related decisions.

Joint Survey between initiatives and district politics

A joint survey between district politics and initiatives has potential to drive change. A survey means to ask inhabitants of an area what they like or don't like about status quo and what they want to change. The initiative has local knowledge of the area and knows what is important to ask. The survey results give politicans guidance what kind of change is backed up by the inhabitants. From our experience a joint survey is possible when

1. all involved people are amicable towards each other
2. there is a third neutral party (for example science project or neighbourhood management) that coordinates the process