Prof. Revital[Tali] Hatuka

Tali Hatuka (B. Arch., M.Sc., Ph.D.) is an architect, urban planner and full professor at Tel Aviv University (TAU). Hatuka graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995; she received an M.Sc. in Urban Design from Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University, U.K. in 1999; and a doctorate from the Technion in 2005. In 2004, as a Fulbright Scholar and a Marie Curie Scholar, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Hatuka has received many awards, including the 2012 Rechter Prize for Young Israeli Architects from the Ministry of Culture and Sport. Hatuka was chosen in 2020 to be one of The Marker’s ‘100 most influential people in Israel’ for her academic and practical work in urban planning.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9738-1708

Hatuka is the Head and founder of the Leventer Urban Design Laboratory, an international center for investigating the connections between the built environment and social dynamics. Thematically, Hatuka research work concentrates primarily on three key themes: (a) the urban realm and society (i.e., public space, technology and dissent), (b) city design and development (i.e., housing and industrial development), (c) open-ended urban experiments. As a whole, the work targets three key audiences: academics, via dissemination, mainly in academic books and peer-reviewed journals; policy makers, by writing and disseminating policy documents, applicative research and strategic planning; and the public at large, mainly through the e-journal Urbanologia, a public, open access journal on urbanism targeting readers from the public sector and the public at large, where she serves as the editor-in-chief. Hatuka has published extensively, and her works include 14 books/edited volumes and more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals/edited volumes. She has also written policy documents and strategic plans, and her research was exhibited at MIT Museum Galleries in 2008 and 201

Research Interests:

• Urban design and planning in the digital age
• Public space and social dynamics (protests, violence)
• Industrial development and industrial urbanism
• Urban regeneration and planning patterns
• The future city and strategic planning

• Hatuka, T., & Vale, L. J. (Eds.). (2026). Designing Signals of Inclusion: A Framework for Fostering Shared Neighborhoods. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003683841
• Bloom, A., Hatuka, T., Schiff, C., Vinker, S., Israel, A., & Shomron, N. (2026). Neighborhood design and depression patterns: The case of metropolitan cities in Israel. Cities & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2026.2661557
• Hatuka, T., & Elhanan, G. (2026). Digitization processes at the neighborhood scale: Infrastructure, governance, community, and practices. Planning Theory, 25(1), 75–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/14730952241263863
• Hatuka, T., & Brighenti, A. M. (2025). A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431312
• Danan Vincent, A., & Hatuka, T. (2025). Heavy industrial parks, a blind spot in planning theory and practice. Planning Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2024.2435191
• Hatuka, T. (2024). A conceptual framework for understanding neighbourhoods in the digital age. Urban Studies, 61(16), 3232–3246. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241257392
• Guershon, M., Mordechai Francos, R., Ayali, A., & Hatuka, T. (2024). Locust behavior and city topology: A biodynamic approach for assessing urban flows. iScience, 27(6). DOI to be confirmed.
• Hatuka, T., Elhanan, G., & Bloom, A. (2024). The neighbourhood–health nexus: Design, behaviour and futures. Built Environment, 50(1), 168–184. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.50.1.168
• Hatuka, T. (2024). Neighbourhoods: Do they still matter? On our agency and possible future paths. Built Environment, 50(1), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.50.1.5
• Hatuka, T. (2023). Public space and public rituals: Engagement and protest in the digital age. Urban Studies, 60(2), 379–392. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221089770
• Zur, H., & Hatuka, T. (2022). Local–Digital activism: Place, social media, body and violence in changing urban politics. Social Media + Society, 9(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231166443
• Hatuka, T., & Ben-Joseph, E. (2022). New Industrial Urbanism: Designing Places for Production. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855000
• Hatuka, T. (2021). Laissez-faire public spaces: Designing public spaces for calm and stressful times. Built Environment, 47(3), 392–401. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.47.3.392
• Hatuka, T. (2021). Protesting in times of social distances. Harvard Design Magazine, 49, 67–73. https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/publics/
• Hatuka, T. (2021). The new Industrial Urbanism. Architectural Design, 91(5), 14–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2727
• Hatuka, T., & Wijler, M. (2021). Agonistic conflict as a distinct type of contentious politics: Learning from protests for and against asylum seekers in Israel. Built Environment, 47(1), 96–118. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.47.1.96
• Hatuka, T., Zur, H., & Mendoza Garcia, A. (2020). The urban digital lifestyle: An analytical framework for placing digital practices in a spatial context and for developing applicable policy. Cities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102978