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The Consequences of Planning Control: Mizrahi Jews in Israel’s ‘Development Towns’

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The Power of Planning

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Analysts of urban and regional planning often depict the 1950s as the ‘golden age’ of planning when the vision of a brave new world offered by planners was adopted by governments worldwide in an all-encompassing quest to mould prosperous, democratic and modern societies. Planning was seen as a positive and often central agent of this progressive transformation. The fusion of noble intentions and increasing state power behind planning appeared to have brought the profession to a historical zenith (Cherry, 1994; Hague, 1984; Hall, 1988).

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    Max Barlow

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    Wolf Tietze

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  1. Department of Geography, and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Oren Yiftachel

  2. Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK

    Jo Little

  3. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    David Hedgcock

  4. Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

    Ian Alexander

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Barlow, M., Tietze, W. (2001). The Consequences of Planning Control: Mizrahi Jews in Israel’s ‘Development Towns’ . In: Yiftachel, O., Little, J., Hedgcock, D., Alexander, I. (eds) The Power of Planning. The GeoJournal Library, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0359-9_9

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