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Planning in the face of crisis : land use, housing and mass immigration in Israel /
Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage incremental change. Can a planner's skills and expertise be effective in handling a major crisis and large-scale change? The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | Cities and regions.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Critics of urban and regional planning argue that it is best suited to manage incremental change. Can a planner's skills and expertise be effective in handling a major crisis and large-scale change? The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s offers the opportunity to study one of the largest-scale (non-disaster) crisis situations in a democratic, advanced-economy country. This book recounts the fascinating saga of how policymakers and planners at both the national and local levels responded to the formidable demand for housing and massive urban growth. Planners fo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415273838 9780415273831 0415273846 9780415273848 0203994043 9780203994047 9786610111176 6610111170 9781134480456 1134480458 9781134480401 1134480407 9781134480449 113448044X |