Private Communities and Urban Governance

Prof. Amnon Lehavi (Yale, J.S.D.) is the Atara Kaufman Professor of Real Estate at the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Centre in Herzliya, as well as IDC’s Academic Director of the Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute. He is a leading authority on property, real estate, land use controls, international economic law and law as it pertains to globalization.

• Introduction.- 1. Can Condominium Associations Make the State Listen in China?.- 2. Private Communities, Social Capital, and the Quality of Governance.- 3. Building for Urban Success? Project Developments and Social Exclusivity in Germany.- 4. Community and Localism in a Heterogeneous Urban Space: The Case of Israel.- 5. Public, Private, and Community-Based Governance: Reflections from Latin American Cases.- 6. Urban renewal and Private governance: Condo-ism in Toronto and Jerusalem.- 7. Security in the Urban Space: Exploring Private Alternatives.- 8. Rethinking Residential Private Government in the United States: Recent Trends in Practices and Policy.- 9. European Condominium Law: Nine Key Choices.- 10. New Types and Trends of Condominiums in Post-Crisis Spain.- 11. Unlocking the ‘Gates’ and Climbing Over the ‘Walls’: Opening Up Exclusive Communities.- 12. Religion and the Construction of Urban Spaces.- Conclusion.