Albin Toffler once predicted that the future might come too early and that we are ill prepared to face its consequences. Well, during the pandemic, local planning authorities were certainly facing adversity and had to adopt new technological instruments to keep the planning machine going. My latest paper explores this issue, namely- how planning is carried out in the age of acceleration. You can read it here
Image: ICT and Planning in the Age of Acceleration. By Chani Volpo and the Planning Policy Lab
Congratulations to Prof. Nir Mualam for being voted as top influencer by the Association of Planners for the list of planning influencers for 2020-2021
Israeli Social Protests. By: Leo Atelman for the Planning Policy Lab
We asked the talented Leo Atelman to draw the J-14 protests of 2011 for our new report\paper on social movements and housing policies.
This paper examines the effect of social protests on planning and housing policies by looking at the case of Israel’s 2011 J14 social protests and subsequent governmental policy reforms. We investigate whether there is a link between the demands of the protesters and reforms put in place in between 2011 and 2017. We also examine whether the policy reforms met the demands of protesters, and to what degree the protests influenced policy changes. We establish a strong connection between the protesters’ demands and the measures the government adopted following the protests. The policies put in place did reflect the government’s willingness to adopt the protesters’ demands, even going so far as to absorb financial losses. However, the government only entertained these demands up to a certain degree. It was not prepared to radically alter its neoliberal, pro-free market outlook in the long term, nor revert to its former role as a social welfare provider.
