Yosef Jabareen

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

This article critically reviews international literature on the social aspects of vertical living. It identifies three research approaches-the built environment effect, the differentiated built environment effect, and the human-environment interrelation-and two focal social orientations of research-suitability and experience-as well as four spatial...

This paper interrogates and problematizes the intimate role of architecture in the dispossession and displacement of people. It explores the case of Ayn Hawd, a dispossessed Palestinian village that was transformed into an Israeli Artists colony in 1951. It found that architecture is deeply involved in executing, facilitating, legitimizing, and aes...

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Residential large urban developments are the dominant mode of housing development in many cities around the world. They introduce new technologies to the residential setting that reshape the dwelling experience. Using digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with residents of three residential large urban developments at the center of Israel, th...

This paper examines the failure of national planning in Israel and analyzes four comprehensive national plans: the Sharon Plan (1951); The 'Israel 2020' Plan, TAMA#35; and TAMA#1. The article shows a profound dissonance between the planning vision and the overarching declarations on advancing social goals of equality, fairness, and social justice a...

The emission divide between large developed and developing cities is increasing, making it unlikely that the Paris Agreement will be met. Herein, we examine how the 424 largest cities globally, each with one million or more residents, contribute to the global emissions gap and examine the increasing emission divide between developed and developing...

This paper examines urban design from the socio-political concept of recognition and formulates a framework of urban space of recognition. It aims to illuminate principles of urban design that enhance the recognition of misrecognized groups in public space. Based on an analysis of a public space shared by Arabs and Jews in the mixed city of Haifa,...

This paper proposes a new theoretical perspective for understanding urban social spaces and their interrelations. In an effort to understand these multifaceted, complex relations, an inquiry committed to a flat ontology was deployed. Accordingly, we draw our theorization on the Lacanian ontological lack, Harman’s object-oriented ontology, and Lacla...

Place attachment theory derives many insights from disruptions to place attachment, such as displacement, migration and changing landscapes. Development-induced displacement – a specific involuntary disruption to place attachment - invites a particular examination. This paper examines a lengthy process of development-induce displacement in Bangalor...

For the first time in history, states and governments almost worldwide have issued two national orders, which are spatially oriented practices aimed at combating the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The first is the 'stay-at-home', 'shelter-at-home', or 'shelter-in-place' order, which aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by enclosing mos...

This article suggests that the domination of the scale of the neighborhood in planning distorts our understanding of urban phenomena and that a multiscalar approach is required. It examines the association of perceived scales with residential satisfaction. The findings suggest that the neighborhood is not the dominant scale with which people percei...

This article suggests that the domination of the scale of the neighborhood in planning distorts our understanding of urban phenomena and that a multiscalar approach is required. It examines the association of perceived scales with residential satisfaction. The findings suggest that the neighborhood is not the dominant scale with which people percei...

Forced displacement caused by development has become a global pressing issue. This article critically reviews the literature on urban displacement and discerns two divides, related to terminology and Global North-South divide. To overcome these gaps, we propose a new conceptual framework of urban displacement that positions the experience of being...

Most Read Article in The International Journal of Qualitative Method Article Title: Building a Conceptual Framework: Philosophy, Definitions, and Procedure

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This article addresses the political and spatial agenda of the people of informalities. It conceptualizes insurgent informality as a discursive social reality, which is based on the struggle between the state hegemonic discourse regarding informal spaces and modes of space production and the countering-hegemonic discourse of communities. Based on e...

Jabareen's article, Sustainable Urban Form, is the most cited article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), which is on behalf of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in the United States of America. A distinguished journal of the American departments of city planning. http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jpe http://j...

Jabareen's article, Sustainable Urban Form, is the most cited article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (Feb, 2018), which is on behalf of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in the United States of America. A distinguished journal of the American departments of city planning. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.11...

Highlights • Urban ontological security theorizes the intertwined relationships between social and spatial aspects of urban security. • Urban ontological security is related to individuals’ everyday routine and confidence in their urban social and physical fabrics. • Urban ontological security is about the confidence in ‘the constancy’ of the urban...

A review of planning literature shows that there is a lack of a multifaceted evaluation framework that helps assessing the contribution of urban and community plans to sustainability and climate change in particular. This paper proposes a new conceptual framework for evaluating urban plans that aim to achieve sustainability and climate change objec...

This volume presents new perspectives on Israeli society, Palestinian society, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Based on historical foundations, it examines how Israel institutionalizes ethnic privileging among its nationally diverse citizens. Arab, Israeli, and American contributors discusses the paradoxes of democratic claims in ethnic state...

There is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies regarding social sustainability. The literature reveals that the “social” was integrated late into debates on sustainable development. This paper aims to fill this gap and proposes a new conceptual framework of social sustainability. We suggest that risk is a constitutive concept of sustainabilit...

Planning the Resilient City: Concepts and Strategies

The promotion of sense of community has been a significant element of the spatial planning agenda of planners in recent years. This paper aims to explore the combined influence of typological characteristics of urban neighborhoods, as well as, social and cultural components. This empirical study was conducted in Beer Sheva, the largest city in sout...

LINK: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RgwW3pIL9TlC ABSTRACT Based on an examination of Israel’s territorial conceptions, strategies, and achievements since the establishment of the state, this article shows how state territoriality subsumes ideology and political agendas and may, under certain circumstances, lead the state to negate its very self...

The major problem with theories of the right to the city is that they inherently assume that states are the sole provider of rights and that, in liberal–democratic countries, legal rights are conceptually universal and apply to all individuals equally. I challenge these assumptions and maintain that in some situations, when the state and its govern...

The international experience suggests that work is the best way of lifting families out of poverty. Thus, this paper assumes that one crucial policy, among many others, aimed at poverty reduction is to increase the women’s participation in the labour market and their access to decent work. This issue is critical among Arab and Muslim women around t...

In recent years, many cities have been grappling with climate change using master, strategic, and action plans aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the anticipated, albeit uncertain, impacts of climate change. Despite the monumental significance of these plans, however, analysts have yet to assess their nature and impact at...

Climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge evaluation-planning methods. There appears to be a need for a multifaceted evaluation framework to aid in assessing the potential contribution of urban plans to climate change practices. The aim of this paper is to propose a new conceptual framework for evaluating urban plans from the perspec...

In light of the complex challenges facing our cities, this chapter challenges the current planning practices of the risk city that are aimed at countering climate change. Climate change and its resulting uncertainties, it argues, call into question the practices, concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a nee...

A fundamental premise behind the risk city is that significant changes in risk perception may result in the production of new planning practices and initiatives on the part of the risk city. Accordingly, this chapter examines recently issued inclusive, master, strategic, and climate change action plans of cities around the world aimed at reducing r...

Moreover, risk, as a negative resource, is socially and spatially differentiated, and therefore, it becomes a major concept of social and spatial inequality in cities. Therefore, understanding the socially-spatially distribution of risk and uncertainties of the risk city is crucial for more effectively coping with risk and for achieving more than j...

The risk city is future-oriented. Planning and practices of the risk city are also future-oriented. In this chapter I want to shed the light on understanding the resilience of the risk city and its futures, what I will call here: the risk city resilience trajectory. In other words, this chapter seeks to propose a conceptual framework for understand...

Risk and uncertainties that climate change poses to our cities and communities are constitutive constructs in defining the contemporary risk city. Consequently, many cities and communities around the world are now grappling with climate change through a multitude of practices aimed at responding to these uncertainties and countering the worst of th...

On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit New York City with an extreme intensity unequalled by any coastal storm in modern history of the city. Forty-three New Yorkers lost their lives and tens of thousands were injured, temporally dislocated, or entirely displaced by the storm impact. This chapter assesses the resilience of New York City in coping...

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The world has recently been witness to the emergence of a new contemporary geopolitical phenomenon: the declaration of Islamic States by specific Islamic organizations. This phenomenon has the potential to dramatically transform the geopolitical setting of the Middle East and to have farreaching effects on a global level. Of these most prominent, h...

Editorial Reviews: Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and sc...

Though cities have always been “risk cities,” this book argues that the cities of the contemporary postmodern world currently face a myriad of risks of unprecedented magnitude. For this reason–like contemporary societies, which are characterized by “the inherent pluralization of risks” they face (Beck in The reinvention of politics: Rethinking mode...

The recently resurrected theories of the “right to the city” represent new paths for scholars in planning, urban, and social disciplines who are seeking to construct a new critical urban theory and to address the injustices, insecurity, poverty, and inequalities of contemporary cities. However, few studies have been conducted to determine whether t...

Climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods. This paper proposes a new conceptual framework for assessing city plans based on the idea of sustainability and planning countering climate change. It ap...

Housing is a fundamental human right and a social determinant of health. According to international law, indigenous peoples are entitled to special housing and health rights and protections. In Israel, land disputes between the government and Arab Bedouins, an indigenous minority, have resulted in ongoing demolitions of Arab Bedouin homes, with tho...

Background: Housing is a key social determinant of heath and is a fundamental human right. Land disputes between successive Israeli governments and its Arab-Bedouin indigenous minority have led to hundreds of government-initiated house demolitions each year. Hundreds more residences face on-going threat of demolition which can have adverse mental h...

In recent decades, the world has seen many internal violent conflicts that dramatically affect the social, economic, and political conditions of human geographies at multiple spatial scales, from the national level to the scale of individual cities and communities. Geography, as a multidimensional discipline, should be in a unique position to contr...

Despite a growth in the number of cities currently planning with an eye toward countering climate change and its effects, few actually promote a comprehensive planning approach aiming at countering climate change impacts. The aim of this paper is to assess and to gain insight from the emerging approach to planning that aims at countering climate ch...

Education for sustainability is becoming a critical component in achieving a sustainable life and protecting our planet and human habitats. However, a review of the sustainability literature reveals a great deal of confusion and misinterpretation regarding the concepts, themes, and goals of education for sustainability. Education for sustainability...

The vulnerability of cities to extreme solar events is an issue of increasing concern, yet relatively few detailed studies of the impacts of these events on cities have been carried out. We present a new policy for a multidisciplinary research framework aimed at coping with extreme solar events in cities. The four interrelated dimensions of the fra...

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, MIT Description: U.S. actions in Iraq get a thorough thrashing in this final chapter of the Reconstructing Iraq series. First, Yosef Jabareen sprints through editorial page cartoons from Arab print media, which represent the U.S. as immoral, abusive, greedy and above all, hegemonic. The drawings depict George Bus...

Sustainable development is multidisciplinary concept in its nature and is covered by various bodies of sciences. Yet, its literature is fragmented and each specific discipline of knowledge analyzes it and teaches it from its nar-row perspective. Therefore, this paper suggests a new conceptual framework for teaching sustainability that as-sumes the...

This paper defines Community of Trust as socio-spatial settings in which there are substantial trust relationships among people and where they feel defended (safe) from internal risks. Our scheme suggests five categories of conditions that together create Communities of Trust: Shared place, shared daily-life practices, shared basic beliefs, and sha...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict involves three major issues: Palestinian refugees, Jerusalem and border issues. This article argues that public planning in Israel has been striving dramatically to influence this conflict in order to achieve geopolitical ends. It focuses on the Jerusalem issue and analyses the role of planning institutions and plan...

תופעת התעסוקה של הערבים בישראל, המהווים כ-1.5 מיליון איש, מורכבת מאד ומהווה אתגר משמעותי לישראל ולכלכלתה. שיעור השתתפות הערבים בישראל בשוק העבודה נמוך משאר אוכלוסיית ישראל והוא מהנמוכים בעולם. מצב זה בעייתי מנקודת הראות של הפרט ושל הערבים בישראל כמיעוט לאומי, ויכולות להיות לו השלכות מרחיקות לכת על יחסי המיעוט הערבי והמדינה ומוסדותיה. המצב בעייתי בא...

In this paper the author proposes a new qualitative method for building conceptual frameworks for phenomena that are linked to multidisciplinary bodies of knowledge. First, he redefines the key terms of concept, conceptual framework, and conceptual framework analysis. Concept has some components that define it. A conceptual framework is defined as...

This article examines the contribution of the concepts trust and risk to our understanding of place meaning as people perceive it, and compares the meanings of a place to two different ethnic groups: Arabs and Jews in Israel. The empirical quantitative study was conducted among 210 Arab and Jewish adults who visited the renovated German Colony, a l...

This article conceptualizes the Ethno-Place of Trust as a new concept for understanding and analyzing the meaning of places to an ethnic group. An Ethno-Place of Trust is defined as a place where a specific ethnic group shares or engages in social, cultural, economic, or political interests and activities, where their relations are based on trust,...

A critical review of the multidisciplinary literature on sustainable development reveals a lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding sustainable development and its complexities. A critical review shows that the definitions of sustainable development are vague; there is a lack of operative definitions and disagreement over wha...

This article defines a new concept, ‘Space of risk’, as a lived space that has low levels of trust among different urban groups; where people feel vulnerable and defenseless against terrorizing, urban clashes and riots. Based on a qualitative study, the article examines this concept in the city of Nazareth, which has been in turmoil since the intro...

This article identifies sustainable urban forms and their design concepts. In addition, it addresses the question of whether certain urban forms contribute more than others to sustainability. A thematic analysis has been used to coop with the vast body of sustainable development and environmental planning literature. The analysis identifies seven d...

This article aims to ground the relations between culture and housing preferences in a developing city with empirical analysis. Based on Amos Rapoport’s framework, this study dismantles the term “culture” into different components and tests their significance as predictors of housing preferences in Gaza City. Based on 1,269 face-to-face interviews...

This paper aims to draw a knowledge map of the fragmented and multidisciplinary literature of sustainable development. Through the process of metaphor making, the study identifies seven metaphors that together construct this map. Each metaphor represents a specific domain in this map. The metaphor of ethical paradox signifies the ethical domain; th...

This paper introduces a new concept, Space of Risk, which aims to help planners and scholars to analyze risks and conflicts that planning might create. The definition of Space of Risk draws upon the terms trust and risk, and the tripartite conceptualization of space proposed by Lefebvre. Space of Risk is a perceived, conceived, and lived space that...