Instruments for Open Space Preservation: What Can Israel learn from other countries?
Conservation of open space is a difficult goal to achieve in a densely inhabited country such as Israel. Despite the efforts of Israel’s statutory planning bodies and the availability “on paper” of a plethora of planning and legal tools, development pressures often win out. More innovative tools, or a repackaging of tools, are therefore necessary. […]
Measurement of performance parameters in the Israeli Industtry
Encouraging industrial investments is of special interest to Israel. For investments to be successful in the long run they require a sound return to the investors. In deciding on new investment the predicted economic return rate generated by the investment is often used as a measurement for its attractiveness. However there is a lack of […]
The Program for Neighborhood Renewal – The Great Experiment and its Conclusions
The Program for Neighborhood Renewal – The Great Experiment and its Conclusions. The Program for Neighborhood Renewal, the leading social project of the eighties, was an extraordinary, and the largest of its kind in the Western world. A project that not only hoped to bring changes to neighborhoods, but also to the workings of government ministries, the […]