The Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute convened its annual international academic conference on June 14-15, 2015, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya campus. This year, the conference’s topic was “Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives.” The conference, organized by Prof. Amnon Lehavi, Academic Director of the Gazit-Globe Real Estate Institute, presented an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between private and public forms of governance in urban settings. This included addressing questions of financing urban infrastructure, cooperation in urban settings, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity in housing complexes, and the affinity between private and group property rights in an urban setting and the jurisdiction of local authorities in regulating life in a city. The conference opened with a lecture by Reichman University President and Founder Prof. Uriel Reichman, and brought together leading researchers from around the world, including jurists, economists, sociologists, and geographers. The conference’s international speakers included:
Prof. Lei Chen, City University of Hong Kong
Prof. Susanne Heeg, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Prof. Clara Irazábal, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Sharon Krefetz, Clark University, USA
Prof. Evan McKenzie, University of Illinois, USA
Prof. Sergio Nasarre Aznar, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Prof. Leonid Polischuck, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Cornelius Van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
The conference also included a study tour of Jaffa. Conference participants visited the Peres Center for Peace, an urban renewal project in the Jaffa Gimmel neighborhood, and the Andromeda Hill complex, and learned about the complex relations between private governance of housing and management in an urban setting, through the lens of Jaffa’s distinctive features.
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