Rachelle Alterman

Technion - Israel Ins. of Technology. Member Israel National Academy of Sciences

Conference proceedings collection as shared with attendees.

Conference Proceedings of the 60th International Making Cities Livable, Newport, Rhode Island, April 2024.

Chapter in a forthcoming guidebook, EUROPEAN HOUSING STUDIES edited by Sergio Nasarre-Aznar, Magdalena Habdas, and Padraic Kenna

Land value capture refers to a range of methods utilised by public authorities to obtain a portion of the rise in land values from landowners. To enable both researchers and decision-makers to comprehensively assess the outcomes and effects of land value capture, evaluation frameworks are necessary. This special issue adopts four generic evaluation...

This edited volume includes a chapter depicting a range of value capture tools in Israel. Other chapters explore similar measures in countries across Europe. This report is based upon work from COST Action Public Value Capture of Increasing Property Values (PuVaCa, CA17125) supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST (...

The right to access and enjoy the coastal zone, and especially the beach, is a centuries-old legal tenet in many countries and a key part of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. However, the legal right for coastal access takes on different forms and degrees in different countries (or states). In this paper we argue that accessibility to coastal zon...

The purpose of this chapter is to delve into housing rights as expressed in national constitutions. We report on all 189 constitutions of UN member states, describing and evaluating them in terms of what they say about the right to housing. As a benchmark for evaluation, we turn to the UN’s main interpretation on adequate housing, known as comment...

In this research project we attempted to shed light on one of many aspects of the relationship between planning and building regulations and landowners’ willingness to comply with them. Our focus has been on “accessory dwelling units” in existing single-family homes. A 2017 amendment to the Israel national planning law intended to legalize many or...

Short abstract - for a longer English abstract see the full book. The research offers the first systematic international comparative analysis of the land-related regulatory constraints and incentives which determine governments’ capacity to permit the siting of RE facilities on land – whether on open space or in dense urban areas. Specific goals a...

תקציר "ישראל 2020" הוא מסמך התיכנון הלאומי השאפתני ביותר אשר חובר אי-פעם בישראל ויכול לתפוס מקום מכובד גם בקנה מידה בין לאומי. את היוזמה של אדם מזור הניע נתון מכונן אחד: ישראל מכפילה את שטח הרצפה שלה בכל 20 שנה. כיום, נתון זה שגור ומוכר, אולם באותה עת, הוא היווה מהפיכה חשיבתית והצליח להכניע את האתוס של פיזור מירבי של יישובים על פני הארץ. תרומתה של...

https://www.routledge.com/Regulating-Coastal-Zones-International-Perspectives-on-Land-Management/Alterman-Pellach/p/book/9781138361560

The globally wide research community has limited knowledge of China's value capture practices beyond the straightforward public land leasing practice. This research is built on a set of case studies of how China's city governments use indirect land sector revenue to fund urban transit projects and urban redevelopment projects in Pearl River Delta....

REGULATING COASTAL ZONES - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAND MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTS CHAPTER 15 - ISRAEL Dafna Carmon and Rachelle Alterman Abstract Israel has the by-far the highest population growth rate among the countries in this book, with most of the population concentrated along the Mediterranean coast. For Israelis, beaches provide the m...

Este documento constituye la presentación de una segunda etapa de investigación sobre Políticas de Suelo, Derecho Urbanístico y Cambio Climático. En una primera etapa, sistematizamos un conjunto de instrumentos urbanísticos y tributarios en Argentina, Brasil y Colombia que se utilizan o tienen potencial para ser utilizados para financiar medidas de...

This study explores the connection between farmers’ property rights in agricultural land and the fulfillment of public policy objectives related to rural land in developed countries. The motivation for the study is to provide a cross-national perspective to evaluate Israel’s rather unique rural land policy towards its world-famous kibbutz communal...

Grounded renewable energy Land and planning-related regulatory barriers in comparative perspective Abstract The State of Israel, together with countries worldwide, has committed itself to the goal of generating electricity from renewable energy (RE). However, despite policy efforts, Israel it is still lagging behind its own targets. Barriers that h...

Much research has focused on the widespread phenomenon of “informal” construction in developing countries, where planning laws are dysfunctional. However, in recent years scholars have used this term with reference to Global North countries as well, where planning laws generally do function reasonably well. In this chapter, we take on a difficult t...

Hebrew language research report on the property and housing rights of members of Israel's communal (kibbutzim) and cooperative (moshavim) villages, in comparative perspective with the rights of farmers in 7 European countries . The findings indicate a striking (and unrecognized) disparity, at the gross disadvantages of the Israeli village members.

The legal and governance context for landscape planning in countries outside the EU can differ greatly from their EU counterparts. We propose a framework for characterizing that context in order to enable readers from non-EU countries to relate their planning systems to the European baseline for landscape planning. Methodologies for the assessment...

Land based financing for climate-change mitigation or adaptation. A research report published by the Lincoln Institute on Land Policy, covering several South American cities.

This paper is grounded in a rancorous debate in built-heritage studies concerning heritage policies and the disputes associated with them. Despite the seeming dominance of architectural considerations in decision-making about heritage protection, factual evidence from previous studies shows that not one, but five factors are involved, in differing...

This paper addresses an underrated aspect of historic preservation policy: the role played by social factors in conflicts over proposals to develop heritage properties. After reviewing existing literature, we develop a theoretical framework and apply it to heritage-related decisions made by planning inspectors in the English planning system. Specif...

The paper analyses conflicts associated with policies to protect the built heritage. Such conflicts relate to a host of tensions between private and public concerns and specifically between pro-development and pro-conservation approaches. To examine these cleavages, the paper operationalises private and public concerns over heritage by asking if th...

במשך שנים רבות, לא ניתן מענה לדרך שבה הרשויות המקומיות יוכלו לספק את מלוא השירותים הציבוריים הנדרשים בעת פיתוח ובנייה בתחומן. הרשויות המקומיות מוצאות את עצמן בין הפטיש לסדן - מצד אחד, דרישה לשירותים ציבוריים ברמה גבוהה מצד תושביהן הקיימים והחדשים, שמגיעה יחד עם צמצום מענקים ממשלתיים, ומצד שני - פגיעה גוברת והולכת ביכולתן של הרשויות לגבות כספים יעוד...

Purpose This paper presents a comparative analysis of non-compliance with planning laws in advanced-economy countries. Most research to date has focused on the widespread phenomenon of “informal” construction in developing countries. However, advanced-economy countries also encounter illegal development, though at different scales and attributes....

that three seemingly unconnected themes have been intertwined in my work: planning theory, implementation analysis, and planning law. I picture them as the beacon, the compass, and the scale. Planning theory is the beacon because it provides planners with the normative-ethical light, with a sense of public mission. Implementation analysis is the co...

An invited mini-chapter

The overarching goal of the Mare Nostrum Project is to help to bridge the policy-implementation gap in the legal aspects of ICZM along the Mediterranean. The project encompasses the local, national and cross-border levels. The focus is on land-related issues: the legal-regulatory aspects of land ownership and control, urban planning, public infrast...

Housing rights are conditions granted by statutes or entitlements by law that rest on the understanding of a need for housing and imply certain duties and obligations either taken by the state or other entities and individuals.1 Much has been written about housing rights in the international human rights context.2 However little comparative work ha...

Published in South-Eastern European Journal of Earth Observation and Geomatics Vol. 3 No. 1 pp. 55-69

Enactment of new or revised planning laws is a booming businesstoday around the globe, including in many developingcountries. As in the case of many other laws, the tendency in developing countries has been to model planning laws along the lines of those enacted and practiced in one of the advanced-economycountries. Before rushing to emulate the pl...

Published in Mekarkeyin, vol 12 no. 4 pp. 17-80

Published in Mekarkeyin vol. 10 pp. 1-42

Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage small, incremental change. Can a planner's skills and expertise be effective in handling a major crisis and large scale change? The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster)...

The issue of land use regulations and property values carries deep economic, social, and distributive-justice implications. This article revisits the upward side of the land-value coin to examine its relevance in today's world. It first addresses the issue and debates over real-property rights and the history of value capture policies. It also prop...

Purpose This paper aims to present the merits of cross‐national comparative research as a method for pushing the frontier of knowledge about planning laws. Since in every country there is usually some dissatisfaction with its present planning laws or certain aspects of them, cross‐national research can open an arena of alternatives based on real‐li...

The United States leads the world in the complexity of its regulatory takings law, the amount of academic writing devoted to the topic, and the intensity of the surrounding public debate. This is one of the (ancillary) findings of a large-scale comparative study of regulatory takings law. A look from the “outside” may shed light on American takings...

Everywhere in the world, land use law and regulation affect real property values -- either increasing or decreasing them. Regulatory takings is the potential raw nerve of land use regulation, yet policymakers and civic groups have tackled the issue without the perspective that a cross-national exchange of ideologies, laws, and practices can provide...

Published in Mekarkeyin vol 9 issue 5

מאז נחקק חוק התיכנון והבנייה ב-1965 (תשכ"ה) נעשו בו תיקונים רבים, אך מעטים מהם בעלי משמעות רחבה כמו תיקון מיספר 43. תיקון זה, אשר נכנס לתוקפו בינואר 1996, שינה את מיבנה מוסדות התיכנון, חלוקת סמכויותיהם והרכבם. הוועדות המקומיות קיבלו סמכויות בתחומים שבעבר היו שמורות למוסדות תיכנון גבוהים מהם. שינוי מיבני זה היה חלק ממגמה הולכת ומתפתחת של ביזור סמכוי...

Mekarkeyin

Assembling land to supply the variety of public needs is a problem shared by local government, planners, and developers across the world. This problem transcends property systems and is not unique to the private freehold tenure system. Land assembly is also problematic in mixed systems in which public and private property rights coexist and even in...

The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In this timely book, bringing together the most cutting-edge research from various disciplines, Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai explore the demographic and developmental challenges that the return of refugees to a future Palestinian state would generate. As well a...

Published in Mekarkeyin vol 5 issue 1

This two-volume Symposium covers eleven advanced economy, democratic countries and represents a wide variety of laws and practices.

1 In this brief paper, I offer a few observations about American land-use law as viewed from the outside. These thoughts are based on my ongoing comparative research into planning law and practice in various countries. I hope that this comparative view might add an additional perspective to the discussion of directions for reform in American land-u...

Published in the Ministry of Construction and Housing

Published in Mivnim, Sept.-Oct. pp. 20-32