Planning allocations and the stubborn north-south divide in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Talia Margalit and Efrat Vertes

Planning Theory & Practice, 2015, vol. 16, issue 2, 226-247

Abstract: Several master plans have attempted to lessen the divide between the poor southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and the well-off central and northern ones. We compared the planning visions, the main policies and detailed schemes, financing methods, and actual implementation efforts. We found that each planning generation has promoted different development locations, regulations, and allocation methods, and yet implementation has generally been much more durable and with superior socio-spatial impacts in the more affluent areas. To analyze and explain these findings we studied planning allocations in the light of ideas of distributive justice and of urban regime practice. We found that while the welfare state's direct allocation of housing and infrastructure for communities and individuals was not really equal, the later indirect allocations by neoliberal regimes mainly stimulated market forces in the more affluent or attractive areas. We also found that while planning allocation varied in different neighborhoods, the pace and order of planning and realization became crucial elements in urban inequality.

Date: 2015
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