Rachelle Alterman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachelle Alterman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Alterman |
| SIGNATURE | ALTERMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8391-7188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hidden Stock of Affordable Housing
This paper explores the potential of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to address the housing affordability crisis, a challenge facing many nations. The high density and regulatory context of Israel make it a globally relevant “laboratory.” Utilizing rental listings from the pre-COVID period (2012–2019), we analyze the prevalence, distribution, and affordability of ADUs compared to standard rentals. The findings indicate growing ADU shares, whether…
Professor Benjamin Davy, 1956–2025
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
Land value capture
Land value capture refers to a range of methods utilised by public authorities to obtain a portion of the rise in land values from landowners. To enable both researchers and decision-makers to comprehensively assess the outcomes and effects of land value capture, evaluation frameworks are necessary. This special issue adopts four generic evaluation criteria as a framework for analysing the various land policy instruments: effectiveness, efficienc…
Between informal and illegal in the Global North
Social dilemmas in built-heritage policy
Architecture is not everything
This paper is grounded in a rancorous debate in built-heritage studies concerning heritage policies and the disputes associated with them. Despite the seeming dominance of architectural considerations in decision-making about heritage protection, factual evidence from previous studies shows that not one, but five factors are involved, in differing doses, in the decisions made by planning bodies: architecture and design, city-planning, social cons…
Looking into the 'black box' of heritage protection
The paper analyses conflicts associated with policies to protect the built heritage. Such conflicts relate to a host of tensions between private and public concerns and specifically between pro-development and pro-conservation approaches. To examine these cleavages, the paper operationalises private and public concerns over heritage by asking if there is a recognisable set of justifications that policy-makers use for supporting a pro-conservation…
Land-Use Regulations and Property Values
The issue of land use regulations and property values carries deep economic, social, and distributive-justice implications. This article revisits the upward side of the land-value coin to examine its relevance in today's world. It first addresses the issue and debates over real-property rights and the history of value capture policies. It also proposes a theoretical distinction between macro, direct, and indirect instruments for value capture. Fo…
Planning in the face of crisis
A Comparative View of Neighborhood Regeneration Programs in Nine Countries
Using four dimensions for comparison—contextual variables, program characteristics, implementation characteristics, and outputs and outcomes—the author offers a comparative analysis of the experiences of nine countries on both sides of the Atlantic in their efforts to regenerate declining neighborhoods. The findings show considerable differences in the neighborhoods' origin (public or private), location vis-à-vis the urban center, national projec…
A Transatlantic View of Planning Education and Professional Practice
This paper presents a comparison of American planning education and professional practice with the modes of education and practice prevalent in European countries. American planning education, encompassing the world's largest community of planning schools in a single country, can be described as mature, rich, and energetic in production of knowledge, and exhibiting a large variety of formats and approaches that reflect its "bottom-up" evolutionar…
Opening Up the “Black Box” in Evaluating Neighborhood Problems
How successful is a particular neighborhood program? This question poses a special challenge for evaluation research. This paper demonstrates how implementation analysis can be utilized to reinforce the evaluation endeavor. Israel's Project Renewal is the laboratory. As a large‐scale national program that encompasses most towns in Israel, it provides what few programs can: the possibility of studying a large enough sample of neighborhoods to cove…
A Transatlantic View of Planning Education and Professional Practice
This paper presents a comparison of American planning education and professional practice with the modes of education and practice prevalent in European countries. American planning education, encompassing the world's largest community of planning schools in a single country, can be described as mature, rich, and energetic in production of knowledge, and exhibiting a large variety of formats and approaches that reflect its "bottom-up" evolutionar…
Architecture is not everything
This paper is grounded in a rancorous debate in built-heritage studies concerning heritage policies and the disputes associated with them. Despite the seeming dominance of architectural considerations in decision-making about heritage protection, factual evidence from previous studies shows that not one, but five factors are involved, in differing doses, in the decisions made by planning bodies: architecture and design, city-planning, social cons…
Opening Up the “Black Box” in Evaluating Neighborhood Problems
How successful is a particular neighborhood program? This question poses a special challenge for evaluation research. This paper demonstrates how implementation analysis can be utilized to reinforce the evaluation endeavor. Israel's Project Renewal is the laboratory. As a large‐scale national program that encompasses most towns in Israel, it provides what few programs can: the possibility of studying a large enough sample of neighborhoods to cove…
Social dilemmas in built-heritage policy
Opening Up the “Black Box” in Evaluating Neighborhood Problems
How successful is a particular neighborhood program? This question poses a special challenge for evaluation research. This paper demonstrates how implementation analysis can be utilized to reinforce the evaluation endeavor. Israel's Project Renewal is the laboratory. As a large‐scale national program that encompasses most towns in Israel, it provides what few programs can: the possibility of studying a large enough sample of neighborhoods to cove…
A Transatlantic View of Planning Education and Professional Practice
This paper presents a comparison of American planning education and professional practice with the modes of education and practice prevalent in European countries. American planning education, encompassing the world's largest community of planning schools in a single country, can be described as mature, rich, and energetic in production of knowledge, and exhibiting a large variety of formats and approaches that reflect its "bottom-up" evolutionar…
A Comparative View of Neighborhood Regeneration Programs in Nine Countries
Using four dimensions for comparison—contextual variables, program characteristics, implementation characteristics, and outputs and outcomes—the author offers a comparative analysis of the experiences of nine countries on both sides of the Atlantic in their efforts to regenerate declining neighborhoods. The findings show considerable differences in the neighborhoods' origin (public or private), location vis-à-vis the urban center, national projec…
Planning in the face of crisis
Land-Use Regulations and Property Values
The issue of land use regulations and property values carries deep economic, social, and distributive-justice implications. This article revisits the upward side of the land-value coin to examine its relevance in today's world. It first addresses the issue and debates over real-property rights and the history of value capture policies. It also proposes a theoretical distinction between macro, direct, and indirect instruments for value capture. Fo…
Social dilemmas in built-heritage policy
Architecture is not everything
This paper is grounded in a rancorous debate in built-heritage studies concerning heritage policies and the disputes associated with them. Despite the seeming dominance of architectural considerations in decision-making about heritage protection, factual evidence from previous studies shows that not one, but five factors are involved, in differing doses, in the decisions made by planning bodies: architecture and design, city-planning, social cons…
Looking into the 'black box' of heritage protection
The paper analyses conflicts associated with policies to protect the built heritage. Such conflicts relate to a host of tensions between private and public concerns and specifically between pro-development and pro-conservation approaches. To examine these cleavages, the paper operationalises private and public concerns over heritage by asking if there is a recognisable set of justifications that policy-makers use for supporting a pro-conservation…
Between informal and illegal in the Global North
Land value capture
Land value capture refers to a range of methods utilised by public authorities to obtain a portion of the rise in land values from landowners. To enable both researchers and decision-makers to comprehensively assess the outcomes and effects of land value capture, evaluation frameworks are necessary. This special issue adopts four generic evaluation criteria as a framework for analysing the various land policy instruments: effectiveness, efficienc…
Professor Benjamin Davy, 1956–2025
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/4.0
The Hidden Stock of Affordable Housing
This paper explores the potential of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to address the housing affordability crisis, a challenge facing many nations. The high density and regulatory context of Israel make it a globally relevant “laboratory.” Utilizing rental listings from the pre-COVID period (2012–2019), we analyze the prevalence, distribution, and affordability of ADUs compared to standard rentals. The findings indicate growing ADU shares, whether…
Political science (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works)