Our research is concerned with the role of laws and regulations in high-rise living and vertical development. High-rise urbanism is becoming more common in Israel and elsewhere, in crowded and densely populated cities, and it offers a new way of living and working (vertically). One of the challenges confronting planners today is determining how to provide adequate public services while facilitating vertical upward expansion.

Using methods from policy analysis, our lab explores the feasibility of vertical allocations of public spaces within vertical environments urban environments. We also study long-term maintenance of strata / multi-owned apartment buildings, the challenges of growing vertical environments, and the provision of open spaces within them.