Professor Rachelle Alterman
Urban Planning and Law
*Founding President and Honorary Fellow, the International
Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights
*Co-Founder, Platform of Experts in Planning Law
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
| Project Head and Coordinator of EU-funded Mare Nostrum Project – details here |
| July 2012 – Awarded the highest honor of AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) – an Honorary Membership. Click here to read more. Click here for videos of my reflections at AESOP’s 25th Anniversary Assembly. |
Fields of research:
– Comparative Planning Law and Land Use Regulation
– Comparative Land Policy and Property Rights
– Housing policy
– Planning Theory and Method
– Implementation of Public Policy
* Recipient of the Landau Prize in Academic Excellence (national prize) in the category of Urban Studies – 2008.
* Recipient of the Israel Planners’ Association’s highest honor on March 8, 2007. Read Haaretz newspaper’s coverage of the event (in Hebrew) here.
Selected newspaper clippings in English* (for more see Media):
- “Are residential high rises the solution to Israel’s housing shortage?” Ha’aretz, February 2013
– “How Green was their Valley” Ha’aretz, January 2012
- “The fast track to high-density building rights”, Ha’aretz, July 2008
- “High on Life”, Ha’aretz, June 2008
- “A Puzzle Within an Enigma”, Ha’aretz, 2007
* Scores of newspaper articles have been featured in Hebrew-only newspapers and these papers occasionally also translate to English.
Click here for download of full CV and list of publications.
| alterman@technion.ac.il | |
| Telephone | Direct: +972-4-8294037. Cell: +972-50-5292917: |
| Home tel & fax | Home tel: +972-9-8991455; fax +972-9-8991477 |
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Takings International A Comparative Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Compensation Rights ABA Press Download pre-publication version of the comparative analysis Download the pre-publication version of Chapter 16 – Israel Preview in Google Books, Purchase on Amazon, Download Chapter 1 |
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Planning in the Face of Crisis Land Use, Housing, and Mass Immigration in Israel Routledge Press Book Review in Planning Theory Journal Download pre-publication version |
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National-Level Planning in Democratic Counties An International Comparison of City and Regional Policy-Making Liverpool University Press Details and purchase from the publisher Download the Book’s Blurb, More Information Download: Front Matter, Chapter 1, Chapter 11 |
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Neighbourhood Regeneration An Internal Evaluation Mansell Download front matter and introduction Download Chapter 10 Download Chapter 15 |
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Private Supply of Public Services Evaluation of Real Estate Exactions, Linkage and Alternative Land Policies New York University Press Download section on Exaction American Style Download section on Developer Provisions of Public Benefits Download section on Exaction Law and Social Policy in Israel |
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Evaluating Plan Implementation: The National Statutory Planning System in Israel Pergamon Press Download |
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Urban Renewal Planning in Israel Download |