The Athena Lecture Series - Professor Rachelle Alterman
International Guest Faculty “Athena Lecture Series” presents Professor Rachelle Alterman, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology: "“The inevitability of negotiated development: walking the tight rope between law and practice ”
Time: Wed 2018-11-07 15.00 - 17.00
Location: U1, Brinellvägen 28A plan6
Please register here or by sending email to:
futureofplaces@abe.kth.se
Professor Rachelle Alterman heads the Lab on Comparative Planning Law and Land Policy and serves as a Senior Researcher at the Neaman Institute for Policy Research. She is the Founding President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights and an Honorary Member of the Association of European Schools of Planning. With degrees in planning and law from Canadian and Israeli universities, Dr. Alterman is regarded a as one of the globally leading scholars in cross-national analysis of planning laws, land use regulations, property rights, and housing practices. Alterman has published 10 international books, some 200 academic papers and reports, and has been invited to speak at conferences and seminars in 36 countries. She shares her knowledge with UN-Habitat, the OECD, the World Bank, and with Chinese, Catalan and Dutch governmental bodies. In Israel her advice is sought by Parliament,government bodies and NGOs, and her publications are frequently cited by the Israeli Supreme Court.
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Jointly organized by the Centre for the Future of Places,
the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and the KTH Graduate Masters Program in Urbanism Studies
Webpage for more information
www.cfp.abe.kth.se/seminarier/athena-lecture-serie
Contact
Marta Marko Tisch