Israeli Planners and Designers

John Forester is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University and the author of The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes and Planning in the Face of Power. Raphaël Fischler is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at McGill University. Deborah Shmueli is Senior Lecturer of Planning and Environmental Policy in the Geography Department at Haifa University.

• Illustrations Preface Introduction PART ONE: Urban Design, Planning, and Architecture 1. From Desert Architecture to Community Planning in AcreA profile of Ari Rahamimoff 2. Directing Urban Design and Planning in Tel AvivA profile of Baruch Yoscovitz PART TWO: Changing Land Use Plans: Controversies Big and Small 3. Planning and Building from Israel's Early Days to the PresentA profile of David Best 4. Hearing Objections under Israel's Planning and Building LawA profile of Michael Meyer-Brodnitz PART THREE: Community Development and Planning 5. Community Organizing and Neighborhood Planning in JerusalemA profile of Avner Amiel 6. Neighborhood Planning in JerusalemA profile of Sarah Kaminker 7. Program Building and Reconciliation in East JerusalemA profile of Farid AbuGhosh PART FOUR: Making City Planning Wo rk 8. Learning and Practicing the Politics of PlanningA profile of David Janner-Klausner 9. Urban Design in the Shadow of PoliticsA profile of Doron Zafrir 10. Planning in an Arab MunicipalityA profile of Rassem Khamaisi PART FIVE: Health Planning 11. HIV/AIDS Planning and Education in the Ethiopian Immigrant CommunityA profile of Ronny Shtarkshall 12. Public Health, Epidemiology, and Planning in the West Bank and GazaA profile of Ted Tulchinsky PART SIX: Policy Analysis and Planning 13. The Development of Environmental Planning in IsraelA profile of Valerie Brachya 14. Planning in the Housing MinistryA profile of Chaim Fialkoff 15. Economic Analysis in Urban PlanningA profile of Ruth Friedman PART SEVEN: National, Regional, and Urban Planning: The Long View From the Top 16. A Visionary PlannerA profile of Raanan Weitz 17. Directing the Division of National and Regional PlansA profile of Dina Rachewsky 18. Being Director of Planning in the Ministry of Housing and BuildingA profile of Sophia El Dor Conclusion References Index

"After conducting decades of planning research using social science protocols, planning scholars have returned to other forms, including narrative. The stories told in this book offer windows of insight into the world of planning practice. I was especially impressed by the diversity of the respondents and the quality of the interview material. Rare indeed are stories about the building of settlements in Israel that describe in detail how Jews and Arabs collaborate." — Charles J. Hoch, author of What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion"Rich, interesting, engaging stories from people who have done exciting things—creating a nation, engaging ethnic differences, designing places or institutions, planning in crises, and the like." — Howell S. Baum, author of The Organization of Hope: Communities Planning Themselves