Mor Shilon

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | technion · Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

Present day cities are highly diverse and include ongoing socio-spatial transformations. Attending to recent calls made within urban planning literature to draw on relational, nonrepresentational approaches to better attend to current cities dynamics, this paper suggests three adapted qualitative methods to the study of socio-spatial relations. The...

In this article, we present a novel approach to studying how air pollution (AP) shapes environmental activism in urban-metropolitan contexts, drawing on geographies of affect. We focus on how people engage with AP affectively, through bodily, sensory, and emotional experiences, and highlight its powerful yet differential affective capacities to pro...

Aeromobility and air travel are known to produce multilevel experiences of sound, ultimately resulting in social and environmental struggles against noise pollution. Different studies that address aeromobile sounds and atmospheres, however, do so while using highly different concepts, approaches, tools, and methods that often create disconnects bet...

Smart specialization is studied in the Arab–Jewish region of Haifa and Nazareth, with a focus on high-tech ventures created by Arab entrepreneurs. We find that not only did smart specialization occur under these complex conditions, but also it was spontaneous. It began with the sharing of entrepreneurial knowledge held by Jewish entrepreneurs throu...

This article argues that high-rise residential projects—a dominant form of contemporary cities—are playing a pivotal role in generating new urban experience for city dwellers. Drawing on an affect-based research approach, we empirically examine high-rise residential projects built from 1998 to 2016 in two medium-size cities in central Israel. We ad...

In light of the growing diversity in contemporary cities, planning literature calls for inclusive and participatory planning acts. Alas, little has changed in planning practice. This paper inquires into the pedagogical aspects of a case study of a qualitative research methods course aiming to prepare planners to plan with 'The Other'. Presenting fi...

The term aeromobilities was popularized around the late 2000s. Allied with the “new” mobilities paradigm, it has expanded to encompass a variety of spatialities that relate to sociocultural dimensions and politics of moving by and through the air. Four geographical dimensions have become prominent in aeromobilities research in recent years: the air...

High-rise housing complexes (HRHCs) are a prominent trend in urban development. They generate new configurations of open green spaces, thus creating a new set of human-environment relations and a new constellation of urban landscapes. However, little attention has been devoted by the literature to these new spatial configurations and the urban expe...

This study empirically analyzes the Ben Gurion International Airport (NATBAG) expansion project, with specific reference to aircraft noise measurements. Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT), the study traces a non-human actor—a noise level formula—that participates in the NATBAG planning process. In particular, we conduct an exploration of how a n...

This paper deploys a relational-material approach for tracing the assembly of passengers as they move through airports and use its series of passage points. While many studies analyse airport mobility and passengers' experiences, few do so with the question of subjectivity as their main theoretical focus. Rather than treating subjectivity as an epi...

Planning researchers and practitioners are adapting to new and evolving planning cultures that require new skills and techniques. This paper examines the introduction of qualitative research methods, traditionally developed as part of anthropology, sociology, and psychology disciplines, to planning students. We present an analysis of qualitative re...