Iris Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 96983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iris Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iris |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5176-4903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Social infrastructure for loneliness prevention: Community centres in low-income Melbourne neighbourhoods
An Infrastructural politics of emotion: Anticipating discomfort, managing expectations and developing routines in Australian community centres
At a time when loneliness and social isolation are increasingly being identified as a social challenge that has far reaching consequences, solutions tend to focus disproportionately on upskilling, directing or supporting individuals who experience this burden. By conceptualising the infrastructural politics of emotions that make social infrastructure accessible and inviting to some people and not others, this paper challenges these tendencies. Th…
Public Housing Redevelopment in Melbourne: A Multidisciplinary Response
Breaking the mould? How do policymakers learn from public housing estate renewal in a multi-actor environment
The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The renewal of public housing estates is often a critical flashpoint in this disconnect and provides a lens for analysing policy and action in the social and affordable housing subsystem. This article analyses and conceptualizes why disconnect between challenge …
Everyday infrastructures of care: Older women in state-initiated housing in Bangladesh
Geographies of Loneliness: Understanding the Spatiality of Feeling Disconnected
Loneliness increasingly features in public discourse as a pressing health issue. Loneliness manifests as a feeling of being separate, distanced or isolated, and it is therefore a profoundly spatial phenomenon. Yet, engagement with experiences of loneliness has been sporadic in the discipline of geography. This paper develops the concept of loneliness geographically as a way to research the places, relationships, routines, infrastructures and mobi…
Health and wellbeing impacts of experiences of public spaces for young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia
While there is evidence from the general population that experiences in public spaces can affect health and wellbeing, there is relatively limited research exploring this relationship for young people from refugee backgrounds, who are at higher risk of poor health. This paper draws on interviews, mapping and photovoice with 10 young people from refugee backgrounds and interviews with 16 service providers working with refugee youth, recruited thro…
Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia
Social resilience and refugee housing: Questioning the shift in responsibility for settlement: a reply to ‘The attributes of social resilience: understanding refugees’ housing choices’ by Francesca Pe…
Social resilience and refugee housing: questioning the shift in responsibility for settlement: a reply to ‘The attributes of social resilience: understanding refugees’ housing choices’ by Francesca Perugia" published on May 2022 by Bristol University Press
Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia: Past, Present and Future
Accessing green space in Melbourne: Measuring inequity and household mobility
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City: A scoping review
Obtrusive Intimacy in Multi-Owned Housing: Exploring the Impacts on Residents’ Health and Wellbeing
In Australia, densification trends and affordability issues have led to increased numbers of people living in high-density multi-owned forms of housing. These housing forms are characterized by close living arrangements, necessitating co-operation with and consideration for neighbours. In the absence of cooperation and consideration, strained relations/disputes among tenants are common, having the potential to result in a range of negative conseq…
Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives
This introductory review essay examines some of the key concepts and approaches framing the ongoing debate around mixed communities and housing regeneration policies around the world. This review summarizes past positive and negative side effects of social mix reported in the extant international literature. It then describes social mix housing policies in the Global East and the Global South, including China, Japan, South Korea, sub-Saharan Afri…
Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel
During the past 30 years, social mix has been on the policy agenda of many countries as a tool for deconcentrating urban disadvantage and enhancing social inclusion. However, these projects often take diverse forms in different institutional and policy contexts. In this article, we compare two separate studies of current urban regeneration programs in Australia and Israel. The comparative analysis reveals major similarities and differences regard…
Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
This research analyses how evaluation of public housing renewal is informing policy development and delivery to maximise financial returns and socio-economic outcomes, and seeks to understand how key public policies, such as mixed-tenure development, can enable both social and economic returns
A Global-Middle-Class House? 1 Cultural Capital, Taste, and Kitsch
In this article, I show how the category of the migrant house, as has been recently discussed in much scholarship, can be expanded to include another subcategory—the global-middle-class house. Recently, the migrant house has generated much research in migration studies and in disciplines of the built environment. Consequently, it has been examined through various perspectives, including home and belonging, materiality in the home, and the transna…
Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents living in the area surrounding the estate, the majority of respondents were supportive of tenure mix. Those who were financially comfortable or only spoke English were significantly more supportive than those reporting more dif…
Cohesion and differentiation in Australia's elite suburbs
Toorak (Melbourne) and Mosman (Sydney) are two of the most affluent suburbs in Australia. The high costs of living and housing in these suburbs preserve their high status. Yet, in recent years, the growing presence of wealthy Chinese residents and investors has challenged longstanding Anglo-Australian residents' perceptions of these suburbs as "European villages". At the same time as new shared identities are being produced, feelings of resentmen…
What is the Meaning of ‘Social Mix’? Shifting perspectives in planning and implementing public housing estate redevelopment
This paper unravels a variety of perspectives about the concept of social mix, drawing on a case study of the implementation of a redevelopment project in Melbourne. The first part provides a theoretical overview of two internationally predominant academic debates around policy interpretations of this concept, namely social mix as a means for promotion of social inclusion; and as a state-led form of gentrification. These two arguments are usually…
Kindergarten teachers' literacy beliefs and self-reported practices: On the heels of a new national literacy curriculum
Social mix and the role of design: Competing interests in the Carlton Public Housing Estate Redevelopment, Melbourne
Dynamic Versus Static Dictionary With and Without Printed Focal Words in E‐Book Reading as Facilitator for Word Learning
We investigated the extent to which a dictionary embedded in an e‐book with static or dynamic visuals with and without printed focal words affects word learning. A pretest–posttest design was used to measure gains of expressive words' meaning and their spelling. The participants included 250 Hebrew‐speaking second graders from low‐socioeconomic status families who were randomly assigned to five equal groups. Four groups read the e‐book with a dic…
Intersectionality in the Migrant House: Homes of Migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel
Recent works on migration and transnationalism have been increasingly utilising the intersectionality framework in their analyses of migrants' lived experiences. Yet these works have so far paid little attention to the significance of space in processes of subject formation, even though social categories have always been spatially contingent. In this paper, I aim to address the lack of spatial transnational consideration through a qualitative exa…
Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne
How is emergent writing based on drawing? Analyses of children's products and their sorting by children and mothers
Writing and drawing produced by children 28-53 months old were compared. Israeli and Dutch preschoolers were asked to draw and write, to classify their products as drawing and writing, and to decide what they had drawn or written. Israeli and Dutch mothers classified the products. Scores on a scale for writing composed of graphic, "writing-like," and symbolic schemes showed improvement with age. Recognition of drawings as drawings preceded recogn…
Tangible transnational links in the houses of Italian immigrants in Melbourne
The transnational immigrant home is understood analytically, in an extensive literature, as a mobile construct that is not necessarily confined in its application to a single locale or building. The home has significant symbolic meaning for transnationals, as well as referring to their places of residence. In this study, however, we explore the physical structure of the transnational immigrant home and its materiality - the house. We examine two …
What is the Meaning of ‘Social Mix’? Shifting perspectives in planning and implementing public housing estate redevelopment
This paper unravels a variety of perspectives about the concept of social mix, drawing on a case study of the implementation of a redevelopment project in Melbourne. The first part provides a theoretical overview of two internationally predominant academic debates around policy interpretations of this concept, namely social mix as a means for promotion of social inclusion; and as a state-led form of gentrification. These two arguments are usually…
Children's counting strategies for time quantification and integration
Social mix and the role of design: Competing interests in the Carlton Public Housing Estate Redevelopment, Melbourne
Chinese migrants in Melbourne and their house choices
Author version made available in accordance with the publisher's policy (following 18 month embargo from date of publication)
Creating mixed communities through housing policies: Global perspectives
This introductory review essay examines some of the key concepts and approaches framing the ongoing debate around mixed communities and housing regeneration policies around the world. This review summarizes past positive and negative side effects of social mix reported in the extant international literature. It then describes social mix housing policies in the Global East and the Global South, including China, Japan, South Korea, sub-Saharan Afri…
Social mix in context: Comparing housing regeneration programs in Australia and Israel
During the past 30 years, social mix has been on the policy agenda of many countries as a tool for deconcentrating urban disadvantage and enhancing social inclusion. However, these projects often take diverse forms in different institutional and policy contexts. In this article, we compare two separate studies of current urban regeneration programs in Australia and Israel. The comparative analysis reveals major similarities and differences regard…
Kindergarten teachers' literacy beliefs and self-reported practices: On the heels of a new national literacy curriculum
A comparison of the geometric reasoning of students attending Israeli ultraorthodox and mainstream schools
Effects of schooling on a geometric misconception were examined by comparing the performance of Israeli students attending ultraorthodox schools with that of peers attending mainstream schools. These groups were of special interest because both value education highly and send essentially all children to school, but I group receives extensive instruction in mathematics and science and the other receives almost none. Despite the ultraorthodox 12- t…
Geographies of Loneliness: Understanding the Spatiality of Feeling Disconnected
Loneliness increasingly features in public discourse as a pressing health issue. Loneliness manifests as a feeling of being separate, distanced or isolated, and it is therefore a profoundly spatial phenomenon. Yet, engagement with experiences of loneliness has been sporadic in the discipline of geography. This paper develops the concept of loneliness geographically as a way to research the places, relationships, routines, infrastructures and mobi…
Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents living in the area surrounding the estate, the majority of respondents were supportive of tenure mix. Those who were financially comfortable or only spoke English were significantly more supportive than those reporting more dif…
Intersectionality in the Migrant House: Homes of Migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel
Recent works on migration and transnationalism have been increasingly utilising the intersectionality framework in their analyses of migrants' lived experiences. Yet these works have so far paid little attention to the significance of space in processes of subject formation, even though social categories have always been spatially contingent. In this paper, I aim to address the lack of spatial transnational consideration through a qualitative exa…
Patterns of Self- and Intragroup Evaluations in Two Different Israeli Preadolescent Peer Groups: The Kibbutz and the City
To examine the influence of kibbutz socialization on patterns of self- and intragroup evaluations, 456 kibbutz and 768 middle-class city pre-adolescents evaluated themselves and a group of same-sex peers on positive and negative traits. As predicted, the kibbutznik evaluated his various peers as more similar to one another than did his city counterpart, and there was also more consensus among his peers in their evaluations of him. Moreover, as co…
Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal
This research analyses how evaluation of public housing renewal is informing policy development and delivery to maximise financial returns and socio-economic outcomes, and seeks to understand how key public policies, such as mixed-tenure development, can enable both social and economic returns
Cohesion and differentiation in Australia's elite suburbs
Toorak (Melbourne) and Mosman (Sydney) are two of the most affluent suburbs in Australia. The high costs of living and housing in these suburbs preserve their high status. Yet, in recent years, the growing presence of wealthy Chinese residents and investors has challenged longstanding Anglo-Australian residents' perceptions of these suburbs as "European villages". At the same time as new shared identities are being produced, feelings of resentmen…
Promoting Early Literacy via Practicing Invented Spelling: A Comparison of Different Mediation Routines
The present study compared the effects of different mediation routines provided to kindergartners from families of low socioeconomic status on the students' invented spelling attempts and on their gains obtained on spelling and other early literacy skills (letter naming, sounds of letters, word segmentation, and word decoding). The effects of the spelling mediation routines were assessed beyond the contribution of the students' self‐regulation an…
Creativity and two modes of associative fluency: Chains and stars1
The relationship between creativity and associative fluency was reexamined in light of a proposed distinction between two modes of associative fluency, chains and stars. Chained associations were defined as a series of responses, each related to the preceding one, and star associations as a series of responses, all of which are focused on the original stimulus word. An analysis of the continuous associations produced orally by 96 university stude…
Patterns of Self- and Intragroup Evaluations in Two Different Israeli Preadolescent Peer Groups: The Kibbutz and the City
To examine the influence of kibbutz socialization on patterns of self- and intragroup evaluations, 456 kibbutz and 768 middle-class city pre-adolescents evaluated themselves and a group of same-sex peers on positive and negative traits. As predicted, the kibbutznik evaluated his various peers as more similar to one another than did his city counterpart, and there was also more consensus among his peers in their evaluations of him. Moreover, as co…
The role of cue salience in the development of time concepts: Duration comparisons in young children
Writing in four- to six-year-olds: Representation of semantic and phonetic similarities and differences
When asked to write an utterance, nursery children and kindergartners often produce strings of unrelated characters. We analysed whether these invented writings reflect similarities and differences in the phonetic and semantic aspects of the utterance. One hundred and twenty Israeli children were asked to write pairs of nouns that share a syllable (e.g. pe ‘mouth’ and perach ‘flower’) and series of sentences that share either mainly nouns or main…
Children's counting strategies for time quantification and integration
A comparison of the geometric reasoning of students attending Israeli ultraorthodox and mainstream schools
Effects of schooling on a geometric misconception were examined by comparing the performance of Israeli students attending ultraorthodox schools with that of peers attending mainstream schools. These groups were of special interest because both value education highly and send essentially all children to school, but I group receives extensive instruction in mathematics and science and the other receives almost none. Despite the ultraorthodox 12- t…
Morphology and spelling among Hebrew-speaking children: From kindergarten to first grade
This study had two major objectives: (1) to analyse the development of two morphological structures in Hebrew, one inflectional and the other derivational and (2) to examine the mutual contribution of morphological knowledge and learning the written code. In a longitudinal design, 40 children were tested twice, first in kindergarten (mean age: 5; 11) and again in first grade (mean age: 6;5), on two oral tasks--inflecting nouns for possession and …
How is emergent writing based on drawing? Analyses of children's products and their sorting by children and mothers
Writing and drawing produced by children 28-53 months old were compared. Israeli and Dutch preschoolers were asked to draw and write, to classify their products as drawing and writing, and to decide what they had drawn or written. Israeli and Dutch mothers classified the products. Scores on a scale for writing composed of graphic, "writing-like," and symbolic schemes showed improvement with age. Recognition of drawings as drawings preceded recogn…
The Effect of Modern Standard Arabic Orthography on Speech Production by Arab Children With Hearing Loss
This article examined the effect of Modern Standard Arabic orthography on speech production quality (syllable stress and vowels) by 23 Arabic-speaking children with severe or profound hearing loss aged 8-12 years. Children produced 15 one-syllable minimal pairs of words that differed in vowel length (short vs. long) and 20 two-syllable minimal pairs differing in stress pattern. Each word was produced in three tasks: reading partially or fully vow…
Tangible transnational links in the houses of Italian immigrants in Melbourne
The transnational immigrant home is understood analytically, in an extensive literature, as a mobile construct that is not necessarily confined in its application to a single locale or building. The home has significant symbolic meaning for transnationals, as well as referring to their places of residence. In this study, however, we explore the physical structure of the transnational immigrant home and its materiality - the house. We examine two …
The Linguistic Affiliation Constraint and phoneme recognition in diglossic Arabic
This study tested the effect of the phoneme's linguistic affiliation (Standard Arabic versus Spoken Arabic) on phoneme recognition among five-year-old Arabic native speaking kindergarteners ( N =60). Using a picture selection task of words beginning with the same phoneme, and through careful manipulation of the phonological properties of target phonemes and distractors, the study showed that children's recognition of Standard phonemes was poorer …
Chinese migrants in Melbourne and their house choices
Author version made available in accordance with the publisher's policy (following 18 month embargo from date of publication)
“This is for the Children, the Grandchildren …”: Houses of Moroccan Immigrants in Metropolitan Tel Aviv
The meaning of migrant housing materiality has not been adequately researched, especially when compared to the meaning of the home for immigrants, a matter of extensive discussion in the past two decades. This paper focuses on the meaning of housing materiality for 12 immigrants who migrated from Morocco to Israel some 60 years ago. Drawing on qualitative data gathered in 2007 and 2008, the paper develops a theoretical framework considering “hous…
Promoting Early Literacy via Practicing Invented Spelling: A Comparison of Different Mediation Routines
The present study compared the effects of different mediation routines provided to kindergartners from families of low socioeconomic status on the students' invented spelling attempts and on their gains obtained on spelling and other early literacy skills (letter naming, sounds of letters, word segmentation, and word decoding). The effects of the spelling mediation routines were assessed beyond the contribution of the students' self‐regulation an…
Kindergarten teachers' literacy beliefs and self-reported practices: On the heels of a new national literacy curriculum
Social mix and the role of design: Competing interests in the Carlton Public Housing Estate Redevelopment, Melbourne
Dynamic Versus Static Dictionary With and Without Printed Focal Words in E‐Book Reading as Facilitator for Word Learning
We investigated the extent to which a dictionary embedded in an e‐book with static or dynamic visuals with and without printed focal words affects word learning. A pretest–posttest design was used to measure gains of expressive words' meaning and their spelling. The participants included 250 Hebrew‐speaking second graders from low‐socioeconomic status families who were randomly assigned to five equal groups. Four groups read the e‐book with a dic…
Intersectionality in the Migrant House: Homes of Migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel
Recent works on migration and transnationalism have been increasingly utilising the intersectionality framework in their analyses of migrants' lived experiences. Yet these works have so far paid little attention to the significance of space in processes of subject formation, even though social categories have always been spatially contingent. In this paper, I aim to address the lack of spatial transnational consideration through a qualitative exa…
What is the Meaning of ‘Social Mix’? Shifting perspectives in planning and implementing public housing estate redevelopment
This paper unravels a variety of perspectives about the concept of social mix, drawing on a case study of the implementation of a redevelopment project in Melbourne. The first part provides a theoretical overview of two internationally predominant academic debates around policy interpretations of this concept, namely social mix as a means for promotion of social inclusion; and as a state-led form of gentrification. These two arguments are usually…
A Global-Middle-Class House? 1 Cultural Capital, Taste, and Kitsch
In this article, I show how the category of the migrant house, as has been recently discussed in much scholarship, can be expanded to include another subcategory—the global-middle-class house. Recently, the migrant house has generated much research in migration studies and in disciplines of the built environment. Consequently, it has been examined through various perspectives, including home and belonging, materiality in the home, and the transna…
Support for tenure mix by residents local to the Carlton Housing Estate, Melbourne, Australia
In this paper, we report on the level of support for tenure mix policies of residents living proximate to the Carlton Housing Estate mixed tenure redevelopment in Melbourne Australia. In a telephone survey of 200 residents living in the area surrounding the estate, the majority of respondents were supportive of tenure mix. Those who were financially comfortable or only spoke English were significantly more supportive than those reporting more dif…
Cohesion and differentiation in Australia's elite suburbs
Toorak (Melbourne) and Mosman (Sydney) are two of the most affluent suburbs in Australia. The high costs of living and housing in these suburbs preserve their high status. Yet, in recent years, the growing presence of wealthy Chinese residents and investors has challenged longstanding Anglo-Australian residents' perceptions of these suburbs as "European villages". At the same time as new shared identities are being produced, feelings of resentmen…
Accessing green space in Melbourne: Measuring inequity and household mobility
Green space and subjective well-being in the Just City: A scoping review
Obtrusive Intimacy in Multi-Owned Housing: Exploring the Impacts on Residents’ Health and Wellbeing
In Australia, densification trends and affordability issues have led to increased numbers of people living in high-density multi-owned forms of housing. These housing forms are characterized by close living arrangements, necessitating co-operation with and consideration for neighbours. In the absence of cooperation and consideration, strained relations/disputes among tenants are common, having the potential to result in a range of negative conseq…
Psychology (23 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works)