Haim Yacobi is a Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. The main issues that stand in the center of his research interest in relation to the urban space are social justice, the politics of identity, migration, and colonial planning. In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing "Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights" and NGO that deals with human rights and planning in Israel and was its co-founder. His latest books are "Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity" and "Israel\Africa: a genealogy of moral geography" (Routledge 2016).
Haim will present on 'Gaza: The spatio-politics of health, death and life'