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  1. Urban beauty: not only how places look, but how they work and feel.

    Article • Journal of Urban Design, January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Asher Elbaz, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  2. Neighborhood planning: A path-dependent perspective on the gap between discourse and practice, the Israeli case

    Article • Cities, July 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  3. The evolution of spatial codes in informal urbanism: analysis of residential patterns in Palestinian-Israeli towns

    Article • Journal of Urban Design, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  4. Whose city is it: The impact of an intentional community on the city—A case study from Israel

    Article • Geographical Journal, January 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  5. Complexity, Responsibility and Care: An Intertwined Perspective on Planning

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  6. Where is the beauty in urban planning?

    Article • Journal of Planning Literature, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Asher Elbaz, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  7. Operationalizing Community Placemaking: A Critical Relationship-Based Typology

    Article • Sustainability, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  8. Assessing urban adaptability: The key is in the land use plan

    Article • Land Use Policy, March 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  9. A Place Within a Place: Location Choice by Intentional Communities

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, June 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  10. The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy

    Article • Applied Geography, February 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  11. Toward the Sustainable Metropolis: The Challenge of Planning Regulation

    Article • Sustainability, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  12. Why public participation isn’t a tool for democratizing planning. A comment

    Article • Planning Theory, February 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  13. Losing faith in planning

    Article • Land Use Policy, September 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  14. Anti-adaptive urbanism: long-term implications of building inward-turned neighborhoods in Israel

    Article • Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  15. Trans-Local Civic Networking: An Alternative Planning Praxis

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  16. Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis

    Article • Land Use Policy, February 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  17. UniverCity: The Vicious Cycle of Studentification in a Peripheral City

    Article • City and Community, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  18. When contradicting public space regimes collide: The case of Palestinian Israeli towns

    Article • Geographical Journal, August 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  19. Real-data-based high-resolution GHG emissions accounting of urban residents private transportation

    Article • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Meidad Kissinger, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  20. Predicting the effects of urbanization on runoff after frequent rainfall events

    Article • Journal of Land Use Science, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Aviva Peeters, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  21. The coding turn in urban planning: Could it remedy the essential drawbacks of planning?

    Article • Planning Theory, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  22. From abstract principles to specific urban order: Applying complexity theory for analyzing Arab-Palestinian towns in Israel

    Article • Cities, February 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  23. Assessing innovation: Dynamics of high-rise development in an Israeli city

    Article • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Jonatan Almagor, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  24. The undercurrents of entrepreneurial development

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Talia Margalit, Professor (Associate) Talia Margalit, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  25. City profile: Beersheba

    Article • Cities, April 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  26. Impact of future urbanization on a hot summer: a case study of Israel

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  27. Socio-Spatial Integration of Older Adults in Four Types of Residential Environments in Israel

    Article • Journal of Applied Gerontology, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  28. Jerusalem of (foreign) gold: entrepreneurship and pattern-driven policy in a historic city

    Article • Urban Geography, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  29. Doomed to informality: Familial versus modern planning in Arab towns in Israel

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  30. Between socio-spatial and urban justice: Rawls’ principles of justice in the 2011 Israeli Protest Movement

    Article • Planning Theory, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  31. Reliability and Validity of a Hebrew Version of the Kogan's Attitudes Toward Old People Scale

    Article • Educational Gerontology, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  32. Ageism and Social Integration of Older Adults in Their Neighborhoods in Israel

    Article • The Gerontologist, March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  33. Between the Individual and the Community: Residential Patterns of the Haredi Population in Jerusalem

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, December 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  34. The actual impact of comprehensive land-use plans: Insights from high resolution observations

    Article • Land Use Policy, October 2012, Elsevier

    Jonatan Almagor, Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  35. Between Friends and Strangers: Schelling-Like Residential Dynamics in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem

    Article • June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  36. Between Friends and Strangers: Micro–Segregation in a Haredi Neighborhood in Jerusalem

    Article • City and Community, June 2012, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  37. Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv

    Article • Israel Studies, October 2009, Indiana University Press

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  38. Between the "Global" and the "Local": On Global Locality and Local Globality

    Article • Urban Geography, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  39. Ideological Developers and the Formation of Local Development Policy: The Case of Inner-City Preservation in Tel Aviv

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  40. An Approach to Planning Discourse Analysis

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2008, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  41. Planning rules for a self-planned city

    Article • Planning Theory, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  42. Planning Policy? Between Long-Term Planning and Zoning Amendments in the Israeli Planning System

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, March 2006, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  43. A tale of two cities: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in an age of globalization

    Article • Cities, October 2005, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  44. The Meaning of Words in Urban Conflicts: Language, Argumentation Patterns and Local Politics in Israel

    Article • Urban Studies, October 2004, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  45. Planning Just-in-Time versus planning Just-in-Case

    Article • Cities, February 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  46. Is Public Participation Making Urban Planning More Democratic? The Israeli Experience

    Article • Planning Theory & Practice, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi

  47. The challenge of regulating private planning initiatives

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof. Nurit Alfasi