Working, shopping, and sleeping – all underground

The realities of scace space that Israel faces should lead to a conceptual change.
In the report “Dense Future – Israel 2050,” Prof. Rachelle Alterman, a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute, wrote: “Israel is significantly behind in preparing for the use of underground space, in its overall infrastructure planning as well as in building specific facilicies infrastructure underground. Due to the rapid population growth, many types of public urban activities will have to moved underground at a scale that will change cities beyond recognition. Part of this process is not at all negative, since it will enable to preserve more overground openspace. This transformation in conceptuion should have been carried out long ago.”