Academic Heads
Carmon, Naomi
Professor, Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Former President of Israel Sociological Society (ISS). Her areas of teaching and research are in social aspects of planning and in evaluation of urban and regional plans, with an emphasis on housing and urban regeneration, on quality of life of minorities and immigrants. read more
Fainstein, Susan
Professor of Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Witwatersrand. Her teaching and research have focused on comparative urban public policy, planning theory, and urban redevelopment. read more
Allen, Judith
Principal Lecturer, Urban Development and Regeneration Department, University of Westminster. Judith Allen is a member of the editorial board of Planning Theory. Her main interests are in the social life of neighbourhoods and in how cities around the world can be understood from a wide variety of perspectives. read more
Alterman, Rachelle
Holder of the David Azrieli Chair in Architecture/Town Planning at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, and Chair of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is the Founding President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights. Her interests are comparative planning law and property rights, planning institutions, planning theory and public participation. read more
Andreotti, Alberta
Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her main research interests are: Social capital and social networks, local welfare systems, poverty and social exclusion, middle class. read more
Banerjee, Tridib
Professor of planning and holder of the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning, in the School of Policy, Planning and Development, at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on design and planning of the built environment from a comparative perspective. He is interested in the political economy of urban design and development, and the effects of globalization on transitional urban form and urbanism. read more
Bratt, Rachel G.
Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University and a Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. Her research is focused primarily on the role of nonprofit organizations in supplying decent, affordable housing to low-income households. read more
Chapple, Karen
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and the Theodore Bo Lee and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Environmental Design. She specializes in community and economic development, metropolitan planning, and poverty, with a focus on the relationship between job growth and housing price appreciation, regional fair share housing programs, workforce development in information technology, housing dispersal programs, and regional collaboration read more
Churchman, Arza
Professor Emeritus in the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and former President of the International Association for People-Environment Studies. Her research interests are: housing issues, the particular environmental needs of women, children, the elderly, ultra-orthodox jews, people with handicaps; and public participation in planning. read more
Fainstein, Norman
Chair and Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College. In recent years he was President of Connecticut College, and before that the chief academic officer at Vassar College. He has also served as a Dean of Faculty at City University of New York (CUNY) and was an active member of the faculties of CUNY, the New School and Columbia University. He has published several books and numerous scholarly articles on urban history and politics, city and regional planning, economic development, race, social movements and public policy.read more
Feitelson, Eran
Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A former chair of the geography department he currently heads the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. Since 1999 he has also been serving as chair of the Israeli Nature Reserves and National Parks Board. He has published widely on planning, water policy (including transboundary water) and transport policy issues. read more
Frankel-Cohen, Iris
Iris Frankel-Cohen is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning, the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institution of Technology. Her supervisor is Prof. Rachelle Alterman. She is a lawyer with experience in civil, administrative and municipal law. Research Interests: social exclusion, planning regulation, planning law, planning decision making. read more
Frenkel, Amnon
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, serves as chair of the Graduate Program for Urban and Regional Planning and member of the board of directors of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. His research interests are: land use projection models, regional and metropolitan planning, urban spatial dynamics and regional aspect of technology diffusion. read more
Galster, George
Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at the Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University. His research interests are: metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, and urban poverty. read more
Gurstein, Penny
Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests focus on planning for equitable and healthy communities; and technology, work and society. She specializes in the socio-cultural aspects of community planning with particular emphasis on those who are the most marginalized in planning processes. read more
Hasson, Shlomo
Professor at the department of Geography, School of Public Policy, and Leon Safdie Chair at the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are urban studies with special emphasis on political, social and cultural processes, political geography and the production of space. read more
Howe, Deborah
Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University, and Principal Investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living grant. Her current research and professional interests include housing alternatives, land use innovations, and community planning for aging. read more
Keating, Dennis
Professor of Urban Planning and Law, Department of Urban Studies, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, and Director of the Master of Urban Planning, Design and Development Program. His research and teaching interests include: housing policy and law, urban and neighborhood development, and land use law. read more
Khamaisi, Rassem
Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. Since 2007 he is the President of the Israeli Geographical Association. His main research interests are geography, urbanization and planning among the Arabs in Israel and the Palestinians in the Palestinians territory and Jerusalem.read more
Krumholz, Norman
Professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Prior to joining the faculty, he served as Director of Planning for the city of Cleveland for ten years. His interests include planning and urban neighborhoods, and equity planning. read more
Levine, Jonathan
Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan, and Visiting Professor at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His interests are transportation and land-use planning, measuring and comparing transportation accessibility. read more
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
Professor and former Department Chair at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the public environment of the city, its physical representation, aesthetics, meaning and impact on residents, and includes documentation of the socio-physical changes that have occurred in the public realm as a result of privatization, revitalization of inner city areas, cultural determinants of design, environmental attributes of crime and their implications for design and policy, and transit oriented development. read more
Marcuse, Peter
Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. Former Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and President of the Los Angeles Planning Commission and was a member of Community Board 9M in New York City. His fields of research include city planning, housing, the use of public space, the right to the city, social justice in the city, globalization, and urban history, with some focus New York City. read more
Mingione, Enzo
Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Coordinator of the European Doctorate Urbeur “Urban and Local European Studies”, University of Milano-Bicocca. He is one of the founder editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and, Member of the Editorial Executive Board of the Journal Inchiesta, His main fields of interest are poverty, social exclusion, informal sector, unemployment, economic and urban sociology. read more
Moulaert, Frank
is Professor of Spatial Planning at the KU Leuven, Visiting Professor and Research co-ordinator at APL/ GURU, Newcastle University and CNRS-MESHS, Lille, France. He has coordinated 7 EU sponsored research projects on social exclusion and urban redevelopment – most of which under FP4, 5 and 6. He has received three Marie Curie Fellowships (Reggio Calabria, Lesbos, Naples) and was holder of a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. read more
Oosterlynck, Stijn
Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning at the K.U.Leuven. His research focuses on the politics of urban and regional development, state spatial restructuring and globalisation. read more
Reardon, Kenneth
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning at The University of Memphis. Former Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University and an Assistant and Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His fields of interests are neighborhood planning, community development and municipal reform. read more
Schnell, Izhak
Professor of social and cultural geography at the department of Geography and Human Environment at the University of Tel Aviv, and former chairperson of the department. He specializes in studying structures of social spaces in a globalizing reality. In particular, he studies socio-spatial segregation of ethnic groups in Tel Aviv and Israeli Arabs’ embeddedness in socio-spatial networks. read more
Shefer, Daniel
Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Economics at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Holds the Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and is the former Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion. His areas of expertise include: urban and regional economics, joint transportation and land use modeling, and various aspects of transportation and environmental economics. read more
Teitz, Michael
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor, University of California, Merced (2004-2005). He has been advisor to numerous government and private organizations, including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Corps of Engineers, the State of California, and the City of Los Angeles. His fields of expertise are urban development and planning, housing planning and policy and regional and local economic development. read more
Tosics, Iván
One of the principals of Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI), Budapest. He is Vice Chair of the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR) and executive committee member of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). He is Policy Editor of the journal ‘Urban Research and Practice’. His interests are urban sociology, strategic development, housing policy and EU regional policy issues.read more
Vale, Lawrence
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. His current research includes disaster recovery, comparative housing redevelopment and urban security. Other research examines the architectural and urbanistic expression of institutional power, and the growth of design and marketing efforts aimed at ‘imaging’ places. read more
Wachs, Martin
Director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program and of the Supply Chain Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. Former Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Professor of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, former Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, and former Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning, UCLA. His interests include transportation needs of the elderly, issues of equity in transportation policy, problems of crime in public transit systems. read more
Invited Chairpersons/Discussants
Alexander, Ernest
Professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His specialization is planning theory with a focus on decision making, planning institutions, interorganizational coordination and institutional design; ongoing interest in evaluation led to recent work on planning rights.read more
Hartman, Chester
Director of Research at the Washington, DC-based Poverty & Race Research Action Council. He is the founder and former Chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers. He has served on the planning faculties at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, UC-Berkeley and UNC. read more
Jabareen, Yosef
Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. Holds the Landau Fellow – Leader of Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Jabareen received his PhD in urban planning from the Technion and graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Jabareen was a visiting scholar and a lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. read more
Lauria, Mickey
Professor, City and Regional Planning, Clemson University. Former President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and former Director of the Center for Community Growth and Change, Clemson University. Among his research interests are housing and community development, urban politics and the politics of planning, urban redevelopment and neighborhood change, planning theory, research design and urban schooling. read more
Rofe, Yodan
Researcher and teacher at the J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and the City and Regional Planning Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Formerly he was Head of Urban Design at Israel’s Ministry of Housing. In 2004 he co-founded, the Movement for Israeli Urbanism (MIU). read more
Shmueli, Deborah
Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. She is a planner specializing in environmental policy issues. A strong focus of her efforts is towards environmental and public sector conflict management and community and institutional capacity building. read more
Silverman, Emily
Emily Silverman is a senior researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads a new Planning with Community Lab. Her research interests are housing policy, urban regeneration, and social planning. Emily brings an applied policy approach to her research, and she frequently collaborates with civil society and social change organizations. read more
Thompson, Phillip
Associate Professor of Urban Politics and Planning at MIT. Phil is a frequent advisor to trade unions in their efforts to work with immigrant and community groups across the United States. He has also coordinated MIT sponsored projects in New Orleans including work on economic development, planning, and the design of an urban information system to help guide recovery efforts. read more
Ferdman, Avigail – Organization Coordinator
PhD candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she is a transportation and urban planner, holds an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and a BA in Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of Transport Today and Tomorrow – promoting sustainable transport in Israel.read more
Grobman, Yasha – Tel Aviv-Yafo Tour Coordinator
Post Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Founder and principal of Grobman Architects, and a partner in Axelrod Grobman Architects. He is the cofounder of T_CODE (Technion’s Computer Oriented Design Laboratory. His current research concentrates on sustainable and performance-oriented design in digital architecture. read more
Hananel, Ravit – Haifa Statement Coordinator
holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion. Her professional interests are land policy, political, social and environmental aspects of planning, allocation of public goods, and the process of decision-making in planning institutions. She has a research and teaching appointment at the Katzman Gazit Globe Real Estate Institute, Faculty of Management, and at the Department of Public Policy in Tel-Aviv University. read more
Lerner, Ofer – Organization Assistant
Ofer is a PhD student of the Urban and Regional Planning Graduate Program at the Technion – Israel Institution of Technology, under the supervision of Professor Naomi Carmon. His fields of endeavor are planning theory and public participation in planning, and his doctoral research intention is to evaluate the correlation between public participation and the outcomes of planning. read more