Researcher interests: Urban geography; social aspects of urban development; housing policy, urban governance, privatization, and geographies of belonging. of belonging. How groups produce and interact with space: particularly in cities. The restructuring of urban environments, e.g., the study of gated communities and condominium development. Urban politics and planning; power relations among different groups and institutions, and their interaction with society and space.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT: Geography
Selected Publications
negotiating urban redevelopment exploring the neighborhood council planning model (2019)|
Journal of Planning Education and Research|
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community private sector partnerships in renewable energy (2019)|
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews|
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rethinking responses towards group homes inclusionary legislation supportive municipal attitudes and place based opposition (2019)|
Social & Cultural Geography|
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the face of affordable housing in a neoliberal paradigm (2019)|
Urban Studies|
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the regeneration deal developers homeowners and new competencies in the development process (2018)|
Geoforum|
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review seizing jerusalem the architectures of unilateral unification by nitzan shiftan alona (2018)|
Journal of Planning Education and Research|
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municipal management of residential collectively owned open space exploring the case of israel (2018)|
Land Use Policy|
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sport facility development municipal capital and shutting out the private sector (2018)|
European Planning Studies|
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the challenge of conceptualizing affordable housing definitions and their underlying agendas in israel (2018)|
Housing Studies|
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reaching new heights post politicizing high rise planning in jerusalem (2018)|
Built Environment|
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