Planning Policy? Between Long-Term Planning and Zoning Amendments in the Israeli Planning System

Nurit Alfasi
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Nurit Alfasi: Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Environment and Planning A, 2006, vol. 38, issue 3, 553-568

Abstract: The Israeli planning system, like many other Western systems, is a regulatory system, meaning that statutory land-use plans are attempts at both setting long-term planning policy and defining planning rights. However, planning in Israel faces a growing gap between its official structure and what is actually implemented. Mainly, an inconsistency exists between the formal top-to-bottom approach of the system and the flexible dynamics that occur in practice. In this paper I focus on the prevalent local zoning amendment procedure and examine its background as well as its implications. Based on this, the paper claims that in Israel, the tension between certainty and flexibility in planning creates a spatially disturbed behavior, which actively tests the bans and limits of existing possibilities.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1068/a37335

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