Doing the Just City: Social Impact Assessment and the Planning of Beersheba, Israel

Oren Yiftachel and Rani Mandelbaum

Planning Theory & Practice, 2017, vol. 18, issue 4, 525-548

Abstract: This article documents the making of a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for Beersheba, Israel, using a modified version of Susan Fainstein’s ‘just city’ vision. Four key dimensions are analyzed: equality, built environment, diversity and democracy. The SIA reveals that the new plan offers positive steps towards narrowing spatial inequalities. However, it overlooks threats of social dislocation as a result of massive development planned for the city. It also ignores the needs of minorities and creates a democratic deficit. SIA is shown to be needed if planning is to face the challenge of the twenty-first century – doing the just city.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2017.1381758

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