DUT / 15 MINUTE ESTATES – 2024-2026

As a result of the successful application in the topic of DUT 15-minute city, the Department of Urban Planning and Design (Faculty of Architecture, BME) will participate in the 15minESTATES project based on international cooperation between 2024-2026.

For the development of sustainable mobility in modernist large housing estates (LHEs), the project 15minESTATES (aka 15-minute LHE) investigates the correlation between three key topics: (1) urban space, (2) mobility options and (3) users’ needs and opportunities. The aim of the project is to focus on large housing estates to create spatial strategies together based on the qualities and opportunities of the given site, to identify interventions that can help the transition to a sustainable and equal mobility environment.

The leader of the project is Riga Technical University (Rigas Tehniska Universitate).

Partners of the project (universities and research centres): Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft), Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of Sofia (Universitet po Architektura Stroitelstvo i Geodezija), Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Leibniz-institut für Ökologische Raumentwicklung EV), HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Csillagászati és Földtudományi Kutatóközpont);

Associated partners of the project (municipalities and civic organisations): Municipality of Budapest District XX Pesterzsébet, Cohousing Budapest Association, Stadt Halle (Saale) GB Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Kulturbühne Neustadt e.V., Riga City Council, Ziepniekkalna Apkaimes Biedriba, Gemeente Delft, Sofia Development Association, Sofia Municipality, Union of Bulgarian Spatial Planners.

Countries of the partnership: Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Switzerland and The Netherlands.

For further information, please visit the profect’s international website https://15minestates.eu/

Related publications, presentations, and events:

15minESTATES: International Scientific Conference. Budapest. 2026.11.12.
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Kissfazekas, K ; Egedy, T. (2026): From community space to no man‘s land? – The use of public space by vulnerable social groups in post-socialist housing estates. A case from Budapest, Hungary
https://doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.75.2.6

Benkő, M. ; Bene, B. (ed.)(2026): 15minESTATES – Urban Space in Large Housing Estates – Co-creating Spatial Strategies for Just and Sustainable Mobility in 5 Large-Scale Housing Estates. Budapest: BME Urbanisztika Tanszék. ISBN: 978-615-112-045-3 ISBN: 978-615-112-046-0
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Benkő, M.; Bene, B. (ed.)(2025): Pesterzsébet központi lakótelep. (Pesterzsébet Centre Housing Estate) Budapest: BME Urbanisztika Tanszék. ISBN: 9786151120118 ISBN: 9786151120101
https://urb.bme.hu/segedlet/dut_15minestates/pesterzsebet-kozponti-lakotelep-kiadvany-2025.pdf

Pődör, G.; Benkő, M. (2025): Egykori ideák, kortárs elméletek: lakótelep mint 15 perces város? (Past ideas, contemporary theories: the housing estate as a 15-minute city?)
https://epiteszforum.hu/egykori-ideak-kortars-elmeletek-lakotelep-mint-15-perces-varos

Klaniczay, J.; Kádár, B. (2026) Emotion tracking to compare guided and non-guided architectural experiences in the post-socialist urban context. WELLBEING SPACE AND SOCIETY
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2026.100434

Benkő, M. (szerk.)(2025): Pesterzsébet lakótelep (Pesterzsébet Housing Estate). Budapest: BME Urbanisztika Tanszék, 48 p., ISBN: 9789634219996
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C36zPFx6raMtv-w7iKRipf9cXByqQl9n/view

Kissfazekas, K. (szerk.)(2025): Pesterzsébet lakótelep V2 (Pesterzsébet Housing Estate V2).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N1JzdbCtBQqPwCFq1u5ITS8btElt2u17/view

Bene B. ; Szabó B. (2025). A szocialista lakótelepek mintaházainak jellemzői és helyük a lakáspiacon (The market position of prototype houses in socialist housing estates). Tér és Társadalom, 39(4), 116–138.
https://doi.org/10.17649/TET.39.4.3638

Verbeek, T. ; Rößler, S. ; Tasheva-Petrova, M. ; Benkő, M. ; Treija, S. ; Faurisson, F. (2026): Transformation of public space in European large housing estates: Dealing with planning challenges. In: Eva, Purkarthofer (szerk.) World Planning Schools Congress 2026 : PERIPHERAL VISIONS – RETHINKING PLANNING. 15minEstates kerekasztal  Espoo-Helsinki, Aalto University, 2026. 07. 02.
https://eventos3-202b6.kxcdn.com/uploads/957/materials/94495f4e6c7f5379dfd7de08833705ef.pdf

Bene, B. 2026 DUT BME mobility business brunch, Budapest,  BME, 2026. 06.23. / poster

Pődör 2026 DUT Budapest, 2026.03. KJK DUT projekt

Egedy, T ; Benkő, M ; Kissfazekas, K ; Szabó, B. (2025): A 15 perces város és a lakótelep (The 15-minute city concept and the housing estate). XII. Magyar Földrajzi Konferencia, Szeged, 2025. 09.18-21.

Egedy, T ; Benkő, M ; Szabó, B ; Kissfazekas, K. (2025): The 15-minute city concept and the housing estate. In: Brigkos, I; Musil, R; Reeger, U; Sievers, W; Hume, A (szerk.) Geographies of a changing Europe : 10th EUGEO Conference. Vienna, Ausztria : Austrian Academy of Sciences (2025) 132 p. p. 36.

Sandra, Treija, S. ; Koroļova, A. ; Bratuškins, U. ; Sonta, A. ; Rößler, S. ; Hecht, R. ; Benkő, M. ; Verbeek, T. ; Dimitrova, E. (2024): Understanding Mobility Behaviour In Large Housing Estates: A Critical Application Of The 15-Minute City Concept: A Critical Application of the 15-Minute City Concept. In: Book of Abstracts : Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, AESOP Paris
https://proceedings.aesop-planning.eu/index.php/aesopro/article/view/2407

Pődör, G. ; Benkő, M.  (2026): The Relationship Between Budapest’s Peripheral Centres and the High-Capacity Railway Network. In: Eva, Purkarthofer (szerk.) World Planning Schools Congress 2026 : PERIPHERAL VISIONS – RETHINKING PLANNING, Espoo-Helsinki, Aalto University, 2026. 07. 03
https://eventos3-202b6.kxcdn.com/uploads/957/materials/94495f4e6c7f5379dfd7de08833705ef.pdf

Benkő, M. Budaoest (2025) DOCONF  moderating the „mass housing neighborhood” session and publishing academic papers
https://doconf.architect.bme.hu/doconf2025-proceedings/