250 city planners, architects, real-estate appraisers, central government officials and researchers participated in a book launch event at the Technion. Dr. Mualam, together with Dr. Eyal Salinger and urban planner Gal Neuhaus-Foyerstein presented their recent study on vertical allocations, which was published by the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at the Technion. The book, titled “Vertical Allocations: The Supply of Public Floorspace in Private Development,” describes and analyzes an innovative planning tool which enables local governments to allocate floors for a range of uses such as schools, kindergartens, public libraries, and more. The event, hosted by the Planning Policy Lab, presented select findings and spurred debate. The invited experts were split in their views; while some highlighted the responsibilities of developers to supply such floorspace, others were more skeptical and held the view that local government is not empowered by law to allocate public floors. The book is the first step in a much broader study on this topic which being carried out by the Lab.
Photos by: Haim Zinger.
