Architect and Lab member Amir Dominitz gave a lecture on centralization of planning powers in Israel. His MSc Thesis focused on a rather distinctive phenomenon in Israeli land use planning – the concentration of planning powers in the hands of a single planning committee also known as ‘the Supertanker’. Architect Dominitz has assessed the apparatus of the Israeli Supertanker, since its foundation in 2014. The committee was intended to address the housing crisis, expand the inventory og housing, and provide new affordable housing solutions. Despite speeding up the pace of plan approval, by 2018 the committee has not produced a single housing unit on the ground.
