UrbanLink15’. A Collaborative Research on Hybrid Work and 15-Minute Cities

Abstract

The goal of UrbanLink15’s research was to identify healthier lifestyles and sustainable facilities that support residents from the economic, social, and environmental impact. The initiative focuses both on promoting hybrid work developed as a relationship between organizational workspaces, living spaces, and neighbourhood co-working spaces, and the (re)connection with the sustainable mobility solutions of the concept of ‘15-minute city’. The article presents the research results (a survey, two focus groups and solutions of the application projects) achieved with the support of researchers, practitioners, and students from different specialties such as architecture, engineering, management, applied science organized in two main topics: (1) workplace relationships, living spaces within the framework of “15-minute city”; (2) alternative mobility through green-blue corridors and gardens. The research refers to the metropolitan area of Timisoara, Romania. In the last part of the article, good practices are included, as the Seestadt aspern projects; this will serve as an example based on the data analysis from a local mobility behavior study (Mobilitätspanel Seestadt aspern, realized within the framework of the aspern.mobil LAB) and will underline the existing relations between the workplaces and the living spaces, looking at changes imposed by the home-office sanitary regulations due to the pandemic situation.