Igal Charney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Igal Charney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Igal |
| FAMILY NAME | Charney |
| SIGNATURE | CHARNEY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8821-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rezoning a top-notch CBD: The choreography of land-use regulation and creative destruction in Manhattan’s East Midtown
This paper makes the case for the connection between making land-use regulatory changes and the process of destruction and redevelopment. Under the capitalist imperative, buildings that do not fulfil the full potential for profit are likely to be demolished (or refurbished) but demolition and new development are not shaped exclusively by the immutable laws of the market as they are mediated and facilitated by specific institutional contexts. Usin…
Venerated skylines under pressure: A view of three cities
For many decades, permissible building heights have been kept relatively low and largely unchanged in cities, which have been home to renowned historic and architectural assets. Recently, attempts to introduce modifications into long-established height limitations have triggered diverse responses among policy-makers, planners and residents of such cities. Using an extensive body of planning documents, protocols, and interviews, and adopting an ur…
Re-planning an edge city: Tysons in the post-suburban era
Reaching New Heights: Post-Politicizing High-Rise Planning in Jerusalem
Varie(gated) communities: Looking into socio-spatial splintering in renewing kibbutzim
A “Supertanker” Against Bureaucracy in the Wake of a Housing Crisis: Neoliberalizing Planning in Netanyahu's Israel
This paper critically questions the state's hostile takeover of planning regulation followed by experimentation initiated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been seeking to subordinate the planning apparatus to market calculus and to short‐term political ends. To substantiate this argument, I have examined a large corpus of documents (official government documents, planning records, and court appeals and rulings, and NGO rep…
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Divided we rise: Politics, architecture and vertical cityscapes at opposite ends of Jerusalem
This paper explores how planning, politics and architecture work together to socially produce new vertical cityscapes. Our contention is that the inception and development of high‐rises are interlocked into the narrations of cities, reflecting cultural values and social cleavages, political interests and planning agendas, symbolic connotations and everyday life experiences. By using a mixed‐method approach, which includes the analysis of official…
Metropolitan dynamics in Israel: An emerging “metropolitan island state”
This study analyzes metropolitan dynamics in a small country with an "island state" context of closed boundaries, using commuting data and mobile phone tracking data. We examine whether the Israeli context encourages the formation of a monocentric "metropolitan state," characterized by increasing links between localities throughout the country and its principal metropolitan node (Tel Aviv)—rather than with secondary metropolitan areas—and by fuzz…
Downtown redevelopment and land-use regulation: Can planning policies discipline property development
Transforming a tower: How did the O ne W orld T rade C enter eclipse the F reedom T ower
This article explores the transformation of a world‐famous supertall skyscraper in L ower M anhattan. Due to unique circumstances and wide exposure via the media, the case of the F reedom T ower/ O ne W orld T rade C enter makes possible looking at the intricacies that remain largely out of the public eye in less‐publicised projects. Dictated by powerful real‐estate interests, the initial vision of rebuilding was to replicate the bulk of commerci…
Splintering Skylines in a Fractured City: High-Rise Geographies in Jerusalem
This paper examines the production of contested and mundane spaces in Jerusalem. So far, scholarship has focused primarily on the turbulent ethnonational relations in Jerusalem, while paying less attention to struggles over issues of growth and development that do not touch directly upon Israeli-Palestinian controversies. In this paper we consider late entrants to the Jerusalem scene, tall buildings, to investigate how planning policies and pract…
Interpreting the Repopulation of Rural Communities: The Case of Private Neighbourhoods in Kibbutzim
Now in the early 21st century after several decades of population shrinkage, kibbutzim are experiencing renewed growth. In‐migration to kibbutzim reflects the re‐appreciation of rural living, a phenomenon sought by counterurbanites and gentrifiers alike. Drawing on two regions (exurban and peripheral) in northern Israel, we examined the case of migrants to newly‐built spaces in kibbutzim known as private neighborhoods. We analyse the characterist…
Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
The Entrepreneurial Turn in the Context of a Central State: Evasive Planning Regulation for Ikea in Israel
This paper considers how municipal entrepreneurialism takes advantage of gaps between state-level planning regulation and local planning capacities. Tensions between local and upper tier regulatory apparatuses are common in Israel, a state characterized by a top-down statutory planning system, where major planning and development issues are subject to the approval of the central state. Intensifying interurban competition for capital investment ha…
Intra-metropolitan preferences of property developers in greater Toronto’s office market
The politics of design: Architecture, tall buildings and the skyline of central London
After 2000 a handful of very tall buildings were approved in central London, a circumstance that challenged well‐established planning practices in that part of the city. Their promotion by Ken Livingstone, the mayor, but opposition to them by conservation groups, seemed to signal a fierce campaign ahead; in fact, it was all over in an instant. This article examines how this debate was framed to dismiss the arguments and concerns of those who oppo…
The geography of suicide terrorism in Israel
Re-Examining Suburban Dispersal: Evidence from Suburban Toronto
In recent studies, arguments have been made attesting to the growing spatial dispersion of Canadian agglomerations. Using the patterns of office development, this article presents an analysis of suburban Toronto during the last two decades. The suburban domain, like the metropolitan region as a whole, is stratified into concentrated and dispersed spheres. A part of the development is scattered; however, for the most part, it is contained within l…
Reflections on the Post‐WTC Skyline: Manhattan and Elsewhere
Canadian Human Landscape Examples: Two visions of Suburbia: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community
Suburban city centres and office parks are among the prominent forms of suburban development in the Toronto region. Suburban city centres combine civic and business functions whereas office parks were designed to accommodate business requirements. Drawing on the largest suburban municipality in the Toronto region, the City of Mississauga, this paper examines two cases: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community. Suburban city centre…
Property developers and the robust downtown: The case of four major Canadian downtowns
By and large, the downtowns of Canada's largest cities have remained important business nodes within their metropolitan regions, even though they have experienced some dimensions of decline. This fact can be ascribed to political, economic and social factors. The focus of this paper is on the property dimension: the structure of property ownership and the role of property developers. Large and powerful property developers and owners (property dev…
Spatial Fix and Spatial Substitutability Practices Among Canada's Largest Office Development Firms
Among agents that reflect and shape urban space, prominent property developers are powerful players. This paper examines the spatial practices of Canada's largest office development firms. These firms constantly explore new frontiers for investment, but at the same time well-established nodes are rigorously maintained and protected. Larger urban areas are preferred locations for investment; yet among them only a few cities attract the vast majori…
Local dimensions of global investment: Israeli property firms in Central Europe
Transnational property investment has increased dramatically during the last few decades. This process has been traced by literature focusing on capital‐rich countries (e.g. the United States, Canada, Japan) and on major world cities. More recently, in tandem with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the geographical horizons of foreign investors have broadened to include former socialist countries. This article examines the recent surge in Israeli p…
Unpacking and Repackaging Regional Diversity: Office-Building Trajectories in Canada
Office-building cycles have been subject to extensive research during the past decade. Researchers have contemplated various aspects of the most recent cycle (1980s to early 1990s), yet the multiple spatial dimensions have received only modest consideration. Taking a longer perspective than the typical building cycle, the author considers the extended trajectories of office development in Canadian cities and regions; these development avenues are…
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Three Dimensions of Capital Switching within the Real Estate Sector: A Canadian Case Study
This article analyzes capital switching practices in the real estate development sector. The leading practitioners in Canada, the Canadian-based real estate companies, are the subject of this inquiry. The tradability and divisibility of real estate properties enhance the growing similarity between real estate properties and other financial assets. It is appropriate to talk about portable real estate portfolios because companies constantly rearran…
A “Supertanker” Against Bureaucracy in the Wake of a Housing Crisis: Neoliberalizing Planning in Netanyahu's Israel
This paper critically questions the state's hostile takeover of planning regulation followed by experimentation initiated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been seeking to subordinate the planning apparatus to market calculus and to short‐term political ends. To substantiate this argument, I have examined a large corpus of documents (official government documents, planning records, and court appeals and rulings, and NGO rep…
Divided we rise: Politics, architecture and vertical cityscapes at opposite ends of Jerusalem
This paper explores how planning, politics and architecture work together to socially produce new vertical cityscapes. Our contention is that the inception and development of high‐rises are interlocked into the narrations of cities, reflecting cultural values and social cleavages, political interests and planning agendas, symbolic connotations and everyday life experiences. By using a mixed‐method approach, which includes the analysis of official…
Splintering Skylines in a Fractured City: High-Rise Geographies in Jerusalem
This paper examines the production of contested and mundane spaces in Jerusalem. So far, scholarship has focused primarily on the turbulent ethnonational relations in Jerusalem, while paying less attention to struggles over issues of growth and development that do not touch directly upon Israeli-Palestinian controversies. In this paper we consider late entrants to the Jerusalem scene, tall buildings, to investigate how planning policies and pract…
Intra-metropolitan preferences of property developers in greater Toronto’s office market
The geography of suicide terrorism in Israel
The politics of design: Architecture, tall buildings and the skyline of central London
After 2000 a handful of very tall buildings were approved in central London, a circumstance that challenged well‐established planning practices in that part of the city. Their promotion by Ken Livingstone, the mayor, but opposition to them by conservation groups, seemed to signal a fierce campaign ahead; in fact, it was all over in an instant. This article examines how this debate was framed to dismiss the arguments and concerns of those who oppo…
Metropolitan dynamics in Israel: An emerging “metropolitan island state”
This study analyzes metropolitan dynamics in a small country with an "island state" context of closed boundaries, using commuting data and mobile phone tracking data. We examine whether the Israeli context encourages the formation of a monocentric "metropolitan state," characterized by increasing links between localities throughout the country and its principal metropolitan node (Tel Aviv)—rather than with secondary metropolitan areas—and by fuzz…
Re-Examining Suburban Dispersal: Evidence from Suburban Toronto
In recent studies, arguments have been made attesting to the growing spatial dispersion of Canadian agglomerations. Using the patterns of office development, this article presents an analysis of suburban Toronto during the last two decades. The suburban domain, like the metropolitan region as a whole, is stratified into concentrated and dispersed spheres. A part of the development is scattered; however, for the most part, it is contained within l…
Varie(gated) communities: Looking into socio-spatial splintering in renewing kibbutzim
Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
Spatial Fix and Spatial Substitutability Practices Among Canada's Largest Office Development Firms
Among agents that reflect and shape urban space, prominent property developers are powerful players. This paper examines the spatial practices of Canada's largest office development firms. These firms constantly explore new frontiers for investment, but at the same time well-established nodes are rigorously maintained and protected. Larger urban areas are preferred locations for investment; yet among them only a few cities attract the vast majori…
Downtown redevelopment and land-use regulation: Can planning policies discipline property development
Interpreting the Repopulation of Rural Communities: The Case of Private Neighbourhoods in Kibbutzim
Now in the early 21st century after several decades of population shrinkage, kibbutzim are experiencing renewed growth. In‐migration to kibbutzim reflects the re‐appreciation of rural living, a phenomenon sought by counterurbanites and gentrifiers alike. Drawing on two regions (exurban and peripheral) in northern Israel, we examined the case of migrants to newly‐built spaces in kibbutzim known as private neighborhoods. We analyse the characterist…
The Entrepreneurial Turn in the Context of a Central State: Evasive Planning Regulation for Ikea in Israel
This paper considers how municipal entrepreneurialism takes advantage of gaps between state-level planning regulation and local planning capacities. Tensions between local and upper tier regulatory apparatuses are common in Israel, a state characterized by a top-down statutory planning system, where major planning and development issues are subject to the approval of the central state. Intensifying interurban competition for capital investment ha…
Local dimensions of global investment: Israeli property firms in Central Europe
Transnational property investment has increased dramatically during the last few decades. This process has been traced by literature focusing on capital‐rich countries (e.g. the United States, Canada, Japan) and on major world cities. More recently, in tandem with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the geographical horizons of foreign investors have broadened to include former socialist countries. This article examines the recent surge in Israeli p…
Transforming a tower: How did the O ne W orld T rade C enter eclipse the F reedom T ower
This article explores the transformation of a world‐famous supertall skyscraper in L ower M anhattan. Due to unique circumstances and wide exposure via the media, the case of the F reedom T ower/ O ne W orld T rade C enter makes possible looking at the intricacies that remain largely out of the public eye in less‐publicised projects. Dictated by powerful real‐estate interests, the initial vision of rebuilding was to replicate the bulk of commerci…
Canadian Human Landscape Examples: Two visions of Suburbia: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community
Suburban city centres and office parks are among the prominent forms of suburban development in the Toronto region. Suburban city centres combine civic and business functions whereas office parks were designed to accommodate business requirements. Drawing on the largest suburban municipality in the Toronto region, the City of Mississauga, this paper examines two cases: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community. Suburban city centre…
Property developers and the robust downtown: The case of four major Canadian downtowns
By and large, the downtowns of Canada's largest cities have remained important business nodes within their metropolitan regions, even though they have experienced some dimensions of decline. This fact can be ascribed to political, economic and social factors. The focus of this paper is on the property dimension: the structure of property ownership and the role of property developers. Large and powerful property developers and owners (property dev…
Venerated skylines under pressure: A view of three cities
For many decades, permissible building heights have been kept relatively low and largely unchanged in cities, which have been home to renowned historic and architectural assets. Recently, attempts to introduce modifications into long-established height limitations have triggered diverse responses among policy-makers, planners and residents of such cities. Using an extensive body of planning documents, protocols, and interviews, and adopting an ur…
Unpacking and Repackaging Regional Diversity: Office-Building Trajectories in Canada
Office-building cycles have been subject to extensive research during the past decade. Researchers have contemplated various aspects of the most recent cycle (1980s to early 1990s), yet the multiple spatial dimensions have received only modest consideration. Taking a longer perspective than the typical building cycle, the author considers the extended trajectories of office development in Canadian cities and regions; these development avenues are…
Three Dimensions of Capital Switching within the Real Estate Sector: A Canadian Case Study
This article analyzes capital switching practices in the real estate development sector. The leading practitioners in Canada, the Canadian-based real estate companies, are the subject of this inquiry. The tradability and divisibility of real estate properties enhance the growing similarity between real estate properties and other financial assets. It is appropriate to talk about portable real estate portfolios because companies constantly rearran…
Spatial Fix and Spatial Substitutability Practices Among Canada's Largest Office Development Firms
Among agents that reflect and shape urban space, prominent property developers are powerful players. This paper examines the spatial practices of Canada's largest office development firms. These firms constantly explore new frontiers for investment, but at the same time well-established nodes are rigorously maintained and protected. Larger urban areas are preferred locations for investment; yet among them only a few cities attract the vast majori…
Local dimensions of global investment: Israeli property firms in Central Europe
Transnational property investment has increased dramatically during the last few decades. This process has been traced by literature focusing on capital‐rich countries (e.g. the United States, Canada, Japan) and on major world cities. More recently, in tandem with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the geographical horizons of foreign investors have broadened to include former socialist countries. This article examines the recent surge in Israeli p…
Unpacking and Repackaging Regional Diversity: Office-Building Trajectories in Canada
Office-building cycles have been subject to extensive research during the past decade. Researchers have contemplated various aspects of the most recent cycle (1980s to early 1990s), yet the multiple spatial dimensions have received only modest consideration. Taking a longer perspective than the typical building cycle, the author considers the extended trajectories of office development in Canadian cities and regions; these development avenues are…
Re-Examining Suburban Dispersal: Evidence from Suburban Toronto
In recent studies, arguments have been made attesting to the growing spatial dispersion of Canadian agglomerations. Using the patterns of office development, this article presents an analysis of suburban Toronto during the last two decades. The suburban domain, like the metropolitan region as a whole, is stratified into concentrated and dispersed spheres. A part of the development is scattered; however, for the most part, it is contained within l…
Reflections on the Post‐WTC Skyline: Manhattan and Elsewhere
Canadian Human Landscape Examples: Two visions of Suburbia: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community
Suburban city centres and office parks are among the prominent forms of suburban development in the Toronto region. Suburban city centres combine civic and business functions whereas office parks were designed to accommodate business requirements. Drawing on the largest suburban municipality in the Toronto region, the City of Mississauga, this paper examines two cases: Mississauga City Centre and Heartland Business Community. Suburban city centre…
Property developers and the robust downtown: The case of four major Canadian downtowns
By and large, the downtowns of Canada's largest cities have remained important business nodes within their metropolitan regions, even though they have experienced some dimensions of decline. This fact can be ascribed to political, economic and social factors. The focus of this paper is on the property dimension: the structure of property ownership and the role of property developers. Large and powerful property developers and owners (property dev…
The geography of suicide terrorism in Israel
Intra-metropolitan preferences of property developers in greater Toronto’s office market
The politics of design: Architecture, tall buildings and the skyline of central London
After 2000 a handful of very tall buildings were approved in central London, a circumstance that challenged well‐established planning practices in that part of the city. Their promotion by Ken Livingstone, the mayor, but opposition to them by conservation groups, seemed to signal a fierce campaign ahead; in fact, it was all over in an instant. This article examines how this debate was framed to dismiss the arguments and concerns of those who oppo…
Interpreting the Repopulation of Rural Communities: The Case of Private Neighbourhoods in Kibbutzim
Now in the early 21st century after several decades of population shrinkage, kibbutzim are experiencing renewed growth. In‐migration to kibbutzim reflects the re‐appreciation of rural living, a phenomenon sought by counterurbanites and gentrifiers alike. Drawing on two regions (exurban and peripheral) in northern Israel, we examined the case of migrants to newly‐built spaces in kibbutzim known as private neighborhoods. We analyse the characterist…
Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
The Entrepreneurial Turn in the Context of a Central State: Evasive Planning Regulation for Ikea in Israel
This paper considers how municipal entrepreneurialism takes advantage of gaps between state-level planning regulation and local planning capacities. Tensions between local and upper tier regulatory apparatuses are common in Israel, a state characterized by a top-down statutory planning system, where major planning and development issues are subject to the approval of the central state. Intensifying interurban competition for capital investment ha…
Transforming a tower: How did the O ne W orld T rade C enter eclipse the F reedom T ower
This article explores the transformation of a world‐famous supertall skyscraper in L ower M anhattan. Due to unique circumstances and wide exposure via the media, the case of the F reedom T ower/ O ne W orld T rade C enter makes possible looking at the intricacies that remain largely out of the public eye in less‐publicised projects. Dictated by powerful real‐estate interests, the initial vision of rebuilding was to replicate the bulk of commerci…
Splintering Skylines in a Fractured City: High-Rise Geographies in Jerusalem
This paper examines the production of contested and mundane spaces in Jerusalem. So far, scholarship has focused primarily on the turbulent ethnonational relations in Jerusalem, while paying less attention to struggles over issues of growth and development that do not touch directly upon Israeli-Palestinian controversies. In this paper we consider late entrants to the Jerusalem scene, tall buildings, to investigate how planning policies and pract…
Metropolitan dynamics in Israel: An emerging “metropolitan island state”
This study analyzes metropolitan dynamics in a small country with an "island state" context of closed boundaries, using commuting data and mobile phone tracking data. We examine whether the Israeli context encourages the formation of a monocentric "metropolitan state," characterized by increasing links between localities throughout the country and its principal metropolitan node (Tel Aviv)—rather than with secondary metropolitan areas—and by fuzz…
Downtown redevelopment and land-use regulation: Can planning policies discipline property development
Divided we rise: Politics, architecture and vertical cityscapes at opposite ends of Jerusalem
This paper explores how planning, politics and architecture work together to socially produce new vertical cityscapes. Our contention is that the inception and development of high‐rises are interlocked into the narrations of cities, reflecting cultural values and social cleavages, political interests and planning agendas, symbolic connotations and everyday life experiences. By using a mixed‐method approach, which includes the analysis of official…
Varie(gated) communities: Looking into socio-spatial splintering in renewing kibbutzim
A “Supertanker” Against Bureaucracy in the Wake of a Housing Crisis: Neoliberalizing Planning in Netanyahu's Israel
This paper critically questions the state's hostile takeover of planning regulation followed by experimentation initiated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been seeking to subordinate the planning apparatus to market calculus and to short‐term political ends. To substantiate this argument, I have examined a large corpus of documents (official government documents, planning records, and court appeals and rulings, and NGO rep…
Interventions in urban geopolitics
Reaching New Heights: Post-Politicizing High-Rise Planning in Jerusalem
Re-planning an edge city: Tysons in the post-suburban era
Venerated skylines under pressure: A view of three cities
For many decades, permissible building heights have been kept relatively low and largely unchanged in cities, which have been home to renowned historic and architectural assets. Recently, attempts to introduce modifications into long-established height limitations have triggered diverse responses among policy-makers, planners and residents of such cities. Using an extensive body of planning documents, protocols, and interviews, and adopting an ur…
Political science (20 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (11 works) · Housing Market and Economics (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Business (8 works)