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 Acre
A profile of Ari Rahamimoff

2. Directing Urban Design and Planning in Tel Aviv
A 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 Present
A profile of David Best

4. Hearing Objections under Israel's Planning and Building Law
A profile of Michael Meyer-Brodnitz

PART THREE: Community Development and Planning

5. Community Organizing and Neighborhood Planning in Jerusalem
A profile of Avner Amiel

6. Neighborhood Planning in Jerusalem
A profile of Sarah Kaminker

7. Program Building and Reconciliation in East Jerusalem
A profile of Farid AbuGhosh

PART FOUR: Making City Planning Work

8. Learning and Practicing the Politics of Planning
A profile of David Janner-Klausner

9. Urban Design in the Shadow of Politics
A profile of Doron Zafrir

10. Planning in an Arab Municipality
A profile of Rassem Khamaisi

PART FIVE: Health Planning

11. HIV/AIDS Planning and Education in the Ethiopian Immigrant Community
A profile of Ronny Shtarkshall

12. Public Health, Epidemiology, and Planning in the West Bank and Gaza
A profile of Ted Tulchinsky

PART SIX: Policy Analysis and Planning

13. The Development of Environmental Planning in Israel
A profile of Valerie Brachya

14. Planning in the Housing Ministry
A profile of Chaim Fialkoff

15. Economic Analysis in Urban Planning
A profile of Ruth Friedman

PART SEVEN: National, Regional, and Urban Planning: The Long View From the Top

16. A Visionary Planner
A profile of Raanan Weitz

17. Directing the Division of National and Regional Plans
A profile of Dina Rachewsky

18. Being Director of Planning in the Ministry of Housing and Building
A profile of Sophia El Dor

Conclusion

References

Index