Ofer Manor

Full-time 2003-2004

Ofer Manor has served for the past five years as the Chief Architect of the City of Jerusalem, Israel. He has led the development of the Jerusalem City Center Regeneration Plan and coordinated over 75 other planning efforts for projects from the scale of a single building to the entire region. In a city of rich cultural diversity and frequent tension, he has led participatory processes sensitive to the values and processes of all the citizens to whom he is responsible. As a Fellow, Ofer will study processes and strategies that deal with some of the current underlying issues of urban planning – especially the varieties of preferences in design, the differences in the way various cultures use urban spaces, and the impact that new fears regarding acts of terror have had on civic dialogue and urban design.