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PUBLICATIONS

Refereed articles in scientific journals

  1. Shlomi, H., Meir, A. and Alfasi, N. (accepted) Whose city is it: The impact of an intentional community on the city—a case study from Israel, The Geographical Journal.

  2. Savaya, Y. and Alfasi, N. (2023) Complexity, responsibility and care: an intertwined perspective of planning. Planning Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2256702.

  3. Elbaz, A. and Alfasi, N. (2023) What about beauty in urban planning? Journal of Planning Literature. https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122231187574. 

  4. אראלה המילטון, נורית אלפסי והנרייט דהאן־כלב (2023) התחדשות עירונית מפרספקטיבה מקומית: השוואה בין חמש ערים בישראל, בתוך: מחקרי רגולציה, ז', עמ' 83-135.    

  5. Fingerhut, Z., Alfasi, N. (2023) Operationalizing Community Placemaking: A Critical Relationship-Based Typology. Sustainability 15, 6371. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/8/6371#.

  6. Tsahor, M., Katoshevski, R., Alfasi N. (2023) Assessing urban adaptability: The key is in the land use plan. Land Use Policy 126, 106508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106508.

  7. אלפסי, נ. (2023) ככה לא בונים תוכנית, תכנון 19 (2), 1-5.

  8. Michaelis Aharon, K. and Alfasi, N. (2022) The Geographical Aspect of Place Branding: Interactions Between Place Brands in the Spatial Hierarchy, Applied Geography 139, 102650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102650.

  9. Zacharya, H. Meir, A., Alfasi N. (2022) A Place within a Place: Location choice by urban intentional communities in Israel. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 113 (3), 469-482. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12534.

  10. Alfasi, N., Margalit, T. (2021) Toward the sustainable metropolis: The challenge of planning regulation. Sustainability 13 (15), 8189. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158189. 

  11. דקל, ת. מאיר, א. ואלפסי, נ. (2021) סְפָר הקפיטליזם והמחלוקת הבדואית־יהודית בנגב - פרספקטיבה כלכלית־פוליטית, אופקים בגיאוגרפיה 99, 76-98.

  12. Alfasi, N. (2021) Why public participation isn’t a tool for democratizing planning. A comment, Planning Theory. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473095221991487 

  13. Alfasi, N., Shnizik, A. R, Davidson, M., Kahani, A. (2020) Anti-Adaptive Urbanism: Assessing the Long-Term Impacts of Constructing Inward-Turned Neighborhoods in Israel. Journal of Urbanism: International Journal of Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 13 (4), 387–409. https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17549175.2019.1705377#.YDTMUtgzaM8

  14. Alfasi, N. and Migdalovitch, E. (2020) Losing faith in planning, Land Use Policy 97, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837719322653

  15. Dekel, T., Meir, A, Alfasi, N. (2019) Formalizing Infrastructures, Civic Networks and Production of Space: Bedouin Informal Settlements in Be'er-Sheva Metropolis. Land Use Policy 81, 91-99. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026483771830543X

  16. מאיסה תותרי-פאחורי ונורית אלפסי (2019) קודים תרבותיים ודפוסים מרחביים: הסדר המארגן של הישובים הפלסטיניים בישראל, תכנון 16 (2), 53-77.  

  17. Totry-Fakoury, M., Alfasi, N., (2018) When contradicting public space regimes collide: The case of Palestinian Israeli towns. The Geographical Journal, 184 (4), 429-442. https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geoj.12265  

  18. Avni, N., Alfasi, N. (2018) UniverCity: The vicious cycle of studentification in a peripheral city. City & Community 17 (4), 1248-1269. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/cico.12338  

  19. Almagor, J., Alfasi, N., Benenson, I., (2018) Assessing Innovation: Dynamics of High-Rise Development in an Israeli City, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 45 (2), 253-274. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265813516671311

  20. Ohana-Levi, N., Givati, A., Alfasi, N., Peeters, A., Karnieli, A. (2018) Predicting land-cover changes and their effects on runoff response to small rainfall events in an urbanized watershed. Journal of Land Use Science 13 (1-2), 81-101. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1747423X.2017.1385653

  21. Reznik, A., Kissinger, M., Alfasi, N. (2018) Real-data-based high-resolution GHG emissions accounting of urban residents private transportation. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 13(4), 235-244. . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15568318.2018.1459971

  22. Alfasi, N. (2018) The coding turn in urban planning: Could it remedy the essential drawbacks of planning? Planning Theory 17(3), 375-395. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473095217716206

  23. Kaplan, S., Georgescu, M. Alfasi, N., Kloog, I., (2017) Impact of future urbanization on a hot summer: A case study of Israel. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 128 (1–2), 325–341. https://www.infona.pl/resource/bwmeta1.element.springer-doi-10_1007-S00704-015-1708-3

  24. Vitman, A., Iecovich, E., Alfasi, N., Shamai, S. (2017) Socio-spatial Integration of Older Adults in Four Types of Residential Environments in Israel, Journal of Applied Gerontology , 36(10) 1243–1271. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0733464815614917

  25. Totry-Fakoury, M., Alfasi, N., (2017) From abstract principles to specific urban order: Applying complexity theory for analyzing Arab-Palestinian towns in Israel, Cities 62, 28-40. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275116306291

  26. Avni, N., Alfasi, N., Bornstein, L., (2016) City profile: Beersheba, Cities 53, 18-29. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275115300330   

  27. שרון מרק, נורית אלפסי ויצחק אומר (2016) בל תשחית: מודעות סביבתית בשכונה חרדית בעיר, המקרה של אשדוד, אקולוגיה וסביבה 7 (2), 145-152. http://old.magazine.isees.org.il/ArticlePage.aspx?ArticleId=596

  28. Margalit, T., Alfasi, N., (2016) The undercurrents of entrepreneurial development: Impressions from a globalizing city. Environment and Planning A 48 (10), 1967-1987. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X16651872

  29. Alfasi, N. and Ganan, E. (2015), Jerusalem of (Foreign) Gold: Entrepreneurship and Pattern-Driven Policy in a Historic City, Urban Geography 36(2), 157-180. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2014.977051

  30. Alfasi, N. (2014) Doomed to informality: Familial vs. modern planning in Arab towns in Israel, Planning Theory and Practice 15 (2): 170-186. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2014.903291

  31. Vitman-Schorr, A., Iecovich, E., Alfasi, N. (2014) Reliability and validity of a Hebrew version of the Kogan’s “Attitudes toward old people” scale, Educational Gerontology, 40(5), 315-326. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2013.802190

  32. נורית אלפסי וטובי פנסטר, 2014, צדק עירוני גירסת רוטשילד, פנים 64, 113-123.

  33. Vitman, A., Iecovich, E., Alfasi, N. (2014) Ageism and Social Integration of Older Adults in their Neighborhoods in Israel, The Gerontologist, 54(2), 177-189. https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/54/2/177/634704?login=true

  34. שלומית פלינט, נורית אלפסי ויצחק בננסון, 2014, פעולה קבוצתית במרחב העירוני: התחרדותה של שכונת קריית היובל בירושלים כביטוי למפגש בין קולקטיביזם לאינדיבידואליזם, מגמות 49 (4), 692-721.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23979352?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

24. Alfasi, N. and Fenster, T. (2014) Between socio-spatial and urban justice: Rawls’ principles of justice in the 2011 Israeli Protest Movement, Planning Theory 13 (4). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473095214521105

25. Alfasi, N., Benenson, I., Almagors, Y. (2012) The actual impact of comprehensive land-use plans: Insights from high resolution observations, Land Use Policy 29, 862-877. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837712000051

26. Alfasi, N., Benenson, I., Flints Ashery S. (2013) Between the Individual and the Community: Residential Patterns of the Haredi Population in Jerusalem, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 2152-76. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01187.x

27. Flint, S., Benenson, I., Alfasi, N. (2012) Between Friends and Strangers: Micro-Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem, City & Community , 11 (2), 171-197. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01397.x

28. שלומית פלינט, נורית אלפסי ויצחק בננסון, 2010, דומים ושונים: מיקרו-סגרגציה של חרדים במרכז ירושלים, סוציולוגיה ישראלית יב (1), 81-110. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23442827?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

29. אראלה גנן ונורית אלפסי, 2011, ירושלים של כסף: משילות עירונית, יזמות עסקית ועיצוב המרחב, סוציולוגיה ישראלית יג (1), 107-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23442875?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

30. Alfasi, N. and Fenster, T. (2009) Between the Global and the Local: on global locality and local globality, Urban Geography 30 (5), 543-566. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2747/0272-3638.30.5.543

31. Alfasi, N. and Fabian, R. (2009) Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel Aviv, Israel Studies 14 (3), 137-156. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30245876?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

32. Alfasi, N. (2009) Planning and the Public Interest: An Editorial Introduction, Geography Research Forum 29, 1-6.

33. Alfasi, N. (2009) Can Planning Protect the Public Interest? The Challenge of Coastal Planning in Israel, Geography Research Forum 29, 83-102. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nurit-Alfasi/publication/235695841_Can_Planning_Protect_the_Public_Interest/links/56ab8a2408aed5a0135c1f64/Can-Planning-Protect-the-Public-Interest.pdf

34. Alfasi, N. and Fabian, R. (2008) Ideological Developers and the Formation of Local Development Policy: The Case of Inner-City Preservation in Tel Aviv, Journal of Urban Affairs 30 (5), 489-505. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2008.00415.x

35. Portugali, J., Alfasi, N. (2008) An Approach to Planning Discourse Analysis, Urban Studies 45 (2), 251-272. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098007085962

36. Alfasi, N. and Portugali, J. (2007) Planning rules for a self-planned city, Planning Theory 6 (2), 146-163. (citations=126 GS; Q1; 7/39 Regional & Urban Planning; IF=3.419). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1473095207077587

37. Alfasi, N. (2006) Planning policy? Between long-term planning and zoning amendments in the Israeli planning system, Environment and Planning 38 (3), 553-568. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/a37335

38. נורית אלפסי, 2006, ערים יצירתיות: ירושלים, תל אביב והכלכלה החדשה, סוציולוגיה ישראלית ח (1), 29-63.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23441995?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents  

39. Alfasi, N. and Fenster, T. (2005) A tale of two cities: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in an age of globalization, Cities 22 (5), 351-363. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275105000594

40. נורית אלפסי וטובי פנסטר, 2005, העיר הלאומית והעיר העולמית: ירושלים ותל אביב בעידן של גלובליזציה, סוציולוגיה ישראלית ו (2) 39-67. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23441951?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

41. Alfasi, N. (2004) The meaning of words in urban conflicts: Language, argumentation patterns and local politics in Israel, Urban Studies 41 (11), 2139-2157. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0042098042000268384

42. Alfasi, N. and Portugali, J. (2004) Planning Just-in-Time versus Planning Just-in-Case, Cities 21, 29-39. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275103000970

43. Alfasi, N. (2004) Public participation and the democratization of urban planning, Horizons in Geography 60-61, special issue on Contemporary Israeli Geography, pp. 21-28.

44. Alfasi, N. (2003) Is public participation making urban planning more democratic? The Israeli experience, Planning Theory and Practice 4 (2), 185-202. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649350307979

45. נורית אלפסי, 2003, תבניות שיח בקונפליקטים עירוניים על נושאי תכנון, מרחבים 5, 125-148.

46. Alfasi, N. (2002) The Israeli Project: Planning the National Space (Exhibition review). Hagar: International Social Science Review 2 (1), pp. 130-136.

47. נורית אלפסי, 2002, בין "שיתוף הציבור בתכנון" לדמוקרטיה תכנונית, אופקים בגיאוגרפיה 55, עמ' 60-78.

Monographs and edited journal issues

  1. Alfasi, N., Portugali, J. (2009) A New Structure for the Israeli Planning System: A Proposal, Tel Aviv University, Daniel S. Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies (in Hebrew). https://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/abraham/publications/city.pdf

  2. Alfasi, N. (2009) Guest editor. Planning and the public interest, Special issue, Geography Research Forum .

  3. Alfasi, N. (2012) UniverCity: Spatial relations between the city and its students, Beer Sheva: Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (in Hebrew).

https://www.academia.edu/11827226/%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%A2_%D7%99%D7%97%D7%A1%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%95%D7%94%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94

 

 

(b) Refereed book chapters in collective volumes

  1. נורית אלפסי, 2006, עיר ללא חוק: על גמישותו של חוק התכנון והבנייה בעיר הישראלית, בתוך: טובי פנסטר וחיים יעקובי, עורכים, עיר ישראלית או עיר בישראל? שאלות של זהות, משמעות וכוח , הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, ירושלים, עמ' 255-282.

Alfasi, N. (2006), Lawless cities: The certainty-discretion dilemma in the Israeli planning system. In: T. Fenster and H. Yacobi (eds.), Israeli City or City in Israel? Questions of Identity, Meaning and Power, Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, pp. 255-282 (in Hebrew).

2. ליאורה מירון ונורית אלפסי, 2008, הזמנה לרחוב: התחדשות עירונית בעיר הוותיקה של באר שבע, בתוך: יהודה גרדוס ואסתר מאיר-גליצנשטיין, עורכים, באר שבע: מטרופולין בהתהוות, הוצאת מרכז הנגב לפיתוח אזורי , אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, עמ' 249-272.

Meron, L. and Alfasi, N., (2008) An invitation to the street: Urban renewal of inner city Beer Sheva. In: Y. Gradus and E. Meir-Glitzenstein, Beer Sheva: Metropolis in the Making, Beer Sheva: Negev Center for Regional Development, Ben –Gurion University of the Negev, pp. 249-272 (in Hebrew).

3.  Flints, S., Benenson, I., Alfasi, N. and Bakman, Y. (2013) Between Friends and Strangers: Schelling-Like Residential Dynamics in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem. In: L. Diappi, (ed.), Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets: Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 103-126.

4. Alfasi, N. and Margalit, T. (2014) The challenge of regulating private planning initiatives. In: Andersson, D.A. and Moroni, S., (eds.), Cities and Private Planning, London: Edward Elgar, 269-293

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