Academic engagement in urban regeneration projects: challenges in building students’ critical professional identity

Rinat Tal, Tovi Fenster, Tal Kulka

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Abstract

How does a multidisciplinary community-based clinic work with an urban community to regenerate its deteriorating real estate? This chapter analyzes the three-year experience of students working with residents of the Jewish neighborhood Yaffo Gimel (“Jaffa C”) located in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in the south of Jaffa. What started as an initiative by Tel Aviv University’s Legal Clinic to help residents with legal orders they received from the municipality continued as the joint work of a multidisciplinary clinic consisting of three entities: planning (based in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities), law (based in the Faculty of Law), and real estate (based in the real estate institute, Faculty of Management). This clinic became involved in an urban regeneration project in which three more actors played key roles besides the university clinic: the limited resource residents, the municipality, and the private developer that became involved later on.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUnderstanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones; Engaging Students for Transformative Change
EditorsDalya Yafa Markovich, Daphna Golan, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages157-184
Number of pages28
ISBN (Electronic)9783030137816
ISBN (Print)9783030137809
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

RAMBI Publications

  • rambi
  • City planning and redevelopment law -- Israel -- Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • Community and college -- Israel -- Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • Neighborhood assistance programs -- Israel -- Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • Service learning -- Israel
  • Urban renewal -- Israel -- Tel Aviv-Yafo

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