Adaptive Reuse of Urban Heritage in Contested Urban Contexts

The world is facing global challenges that are dramatically changing the social and physical environments, resulting in cultural confrontation. Rapid urban growth, and gentrification increase urban pressure while jeopardizing social cohesion, multicultural values and local economies. Moreover, environmental factors associated with climate change...

From Homes to Assets and From Pioneers to Shareholders: An Evolving Frontier Terminology

Frontier settlements played a key role in the formation of Israeli society and its territorial project. In the pre-statehood years and during the first decades after the establishment of the state of Israel, settling the frontiers formed one of the main national objectives, securing the nation’s control over space while promoting a unified local...

What Makes Farmers Follow the Standard? The Role of Regional Characteristics, Local Alternatives, and Policy Support in Non-State Market Driven Governance in the Arava, Israel

Supermarkets have become a major actor in driving a shift to more sustainable agricultural practices throughout the agri-food value chains, using certification schemes and other instruments known as non-state market driven (NSMD) governance. This paper explores what factors may affect farmers’ willingness to join such mechanism once it is in...

Implementation of the 3D Cadastre in Israel - Stage 1

Israel is a small territory country. It causes a lack of land for residance in areas of demand. Therefore, the issue of utilizing land effectivley include underground and above, registration of rights in the land in a three-dimensional form is particularly relevant. The main problem was the definition of ownership in Israeli legislation. At the...

The Community Settlement: a neo-rural territorial tool

The Israeli Community Settlements are small-scale non-agricultural villages that consist of a limited number of families and a homogenous character. This method began to be used by the Israeli government and its different planning agencies during the 1970s as a tool to strengthen the state's territorial and demographical control over the Israeli...

The Privatisation of a National Project: The settlements along the trans-Israel Highway since 1977

The settlements along the Trans-Israel Highway illustrate the privatisation of the national settlement enterprise. To understand this process, this dissertation focuses on the settlement production mechanism, which consists of the reciprocal interests of the government and various private groups to develop and domesticate the border area between...

Financialising the Frontier: Harish City

Housing and settlement played a key role in the formation of an Israeli society and its territorial project. While earlier frontier settlement relied on the rural sector and on peripheral development towns, with the liberalisation and privatisation of the local economy it was incorporated in the nationwide suburbanisation process. Eventually,...

An officer and a bourgeois: Israeli military personnel, suburbanization and selective privatization

In the 1980s the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) initiated the construction of several suburban communities for the benefit of its personnel. These new settlements offered the opportunity of a better quality of life in a homogeneous and exclusive environment, all in a commuting distance from the main metropolises. The State subsidized the...

Settle and Rule: the evolution of the Israeli national project

Settling in Palestine is an integral part of the national revival of the Jewish nation, which eventually led to the establishment of the state of Israel. This paper defines the Practical Zionism territorial strategy as a Settle and Rule mechanism that evolved through four periods of development, from the pre-state era to the post-state era:...

The Bourgeoisification of the Green-Line: the new Israeli middle-class and the Suburban Settlement

This paper focuses on Kochav-Yair and Oranit, two localities that exemplify the Israeli Suburban Settlement phenomenon. With the first being developed by a selective group of families and the latter by a single private entrepreneur, yet both with the full support of the state, they represent the selective privatisation of the national settlement...

Implementation of the 3D Cadastre in Israel

Cadastre can be referred to as a legal frame which connects three main components of any land administration system: people, land and law. A functional and reliable cadastral system is a vital factor in proper management of land, which in turn leads to sustainable development and a strong economy of a country. The need for a solid cadastral...

Steps towards 3D Cadastre and ISO 19152 (LADM) in Israel

This paper contains the results of the 3D Cadastre and LADM (Land Administration Domain Model) investigations in context of possible future renewal of the Cadastral database at the Survey of Israel. The two topics of 3D Cadastres and LADM are highly related and therefore this paper covers both aspects. After recapturing the past 3D cadastre...

Steps towards 3D cadastre and ISO 19152 (LADM) in Israel

This paper contains the results of the 3D Cadastre and LADM (Land Administration Domain Model) investigations in context of possible future renewal of the Cadastral database at the Survey of Israel. The two topics of 3D Cadastres and LADM are highly related and therefore this paper covers both aspects. After recapturing the past 3D cadastre...

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Transition from two-dimensional legal and cadastral reality to a three-dimensional one

The problem of the intensive use of land and the growing demand for it in the central and northern parts of Israel has many aspects: social and political, economical and environmental. Other problems are more applicational and relate to engineering, plan-ning, architecture and other topics. All these aspects have their judicial and technical...

Assessment of morphological impacts due to construction of artificial islands along the coast of Israel

The study into the feasibility o f the construction of islands off the coast of Israel is being conducted jointly between teams from Israel and The Netherlands as part of agreements for collaboration dating from 1996 and 1997. From early 1997, work began on defining the details of the project plan for the feasibility study. Since late 1997 and...