Program Overview
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PLEASE NOTE – Some presenters listed in the program did not ultimately present at the conference, as they cancelled attendance after the program had gone to print.
Monday 10 February | ||
All day | Optional workshops, including travel to relevant sites | |
Tuesday 11 February | ||
All day | Optional workshops, including travel to relevant sites | |
Evening | Informal – Go out to Haifa cafes – Technion student-guided (self-pay) | |
Wednesday 12 February | ||
9:00am | Official Welcome / Plenary Session | |
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Hanoch Dagan Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law — “Expropriatory Compensation, Distributive Justice, and The Rule of Law” |
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10:30am | Coffee Break | |
11:00am | Parallel Sessions | |
12:45pm | Lunch | |
1:45pm | Parallel Sessions | |
3:30pm | Coffee Break | |
4:00pm | An Introduction to Israeli Planning Law and Land Policy – Professor Rachelle Alterman, Technion | |
5:00pm | PLPR meeting and elections | |
6:15pm | Buses departing to Haifa City Hall, Hadar | |
6:45pm | Haifa City Reception / Haifa Planning Talk (with light food). At the historic City Hall in the mid-town Hadar area of the city. Address by the Mayor of Haifa Mr Yona Yahav, a lawyer. | |
8:30pm | Free evening or Haifa ethnic restaurants self-pay dinner (student-guided) / PhD Students – Group Dinner | |
Bus back to hotels (Carmel Center); bus to restaurants downtown, or walk. | ||
Thursday 13 February | ||
9:00am | Plenary Session |
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Chris Webster Dean, Hong Kong University Faculty of Architecture — “Urbanization and development as the fragmentation of property rights” |
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Jerold S. Kayden Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design — “Can Planning Law Make Public Space?” |
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10:45am | Coffee Break | |
11:15am | Parallel Sessions | |
1:00pm | Lunch | |
2:00pm | Special Plenary Session: Judicial Perspectives |
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Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Justice (ret.) Dalia Dorner Israel Supreme Court — “The Israeli Democracy: Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism” |
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Discussion about implications for planning: Opened by panel of overseas judges attending PLPR 2014. | ||
4:00pm | Coffee Break | |
4:30pm | Parallel Sessions | |
6:30pm | Buses to a very special dinner venue (approx. 30 minutes’ ride) | |
Dinner (informal dress). Includes tour and planning content. PLPR Flag Transfer Ceremony. | ||
10:00 – 10:30pm | Buses back to hotels | |
Friday 14 February | ||
9:00am | Parallel Sessions | |
10:45am | Coffee Break | |
11:15am | Parallel Sessions | |
1:00pm | Bus to Bahai World Center, Haifa | |
1:30pm | Concluding Plenary and lunch at Bahai World Center | |
Lecture and tour “The Bahai World Center and its Contribution to Haifa Planning” (click here for more on the Bahai Gardens in Haifa) | ||
3:30pm | OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CONCLUSION and THANKS | |
3:45pm | Planning tour of Haifa and Region | |
6:00pm | Ethnic-food dinner in Druze Village, with Druze planners (self-pay) | |
7:30pm | Bus back to hotels (or stay on and take shared cabs) | |
Saturday 15 February | ||
All day | For suggestions for self-organizing for post-conference touring, click here. |