Professor Rachelle Alterman
Urban Planning and Law

Founding President, the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights 

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Fields of research:
- Comparative Land Use and Planning Law - Comparative Land Policy and Property Rights
- Planning Theory and Method
- Public Participation in Planning
- 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:
- "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

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Takings International 
A Comparative Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Compensation Rights

ABA Press

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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
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National-Level Planning in Democratic Counties
An International Comparison of City and Regional Policy-Making

Liverpool University Press

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Private Supply of Public Services
Evaluation of Real Estate Exactions, Linkage and Alternative Land Policies

New York University Press

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