Dr. Noga[Noga Keidar] Keidar

I am an urban sociologist studying the relationships between cities, ideas, and governance. My research explores how urban policies, planning concepts, and cultural models travel across places, how cities learn from one another, and how the circulation of these ideas generates transnational spaces of urban knowledge and expertise. My recent work focuses on urban cultural policy, publicness, and urban responses to crisis, including climate change and war. My work combines qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods and draws on insights from sociology, public policy, urban studies, and human geography.

In the current academic year, I teach courses in Urban Sociology (B.A.), a seminar on Urban Crises (B.A. and M.A.), Foundations of Social Research (B.A.), and Research Methods (M.A. program in Social and Policy Aspects of Climate Change, M.A. program in Sustainable Development). I am available for conversations and consultation on research, urban policy, and urban activism.

WORK

Now     Senior Lecturer, the Sociology and Anthropology Department and the M.A Program 'Social and Policy Aspects of Climate Change,’ Tel Aviv University

2023-24 Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer,

 University of Toronto – Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research & Training Alliance

 School of Cities (U of T) and the Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (HUJI)                                             

2020-22 Azrieli Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer,

 Institute of Urban and Regional Studies and the Sociology and Anthropology Department,

 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2017 - 2023 Head of Research, The Urban Clinic, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

EDUCATION

2021    PhD in Sociology, University of Toronto

2013    M.A. in Sociology, Hebrew University (summa cum laude)

2010      B.A. in Sociology, Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Hebrew University

Keidar, N. & Silver, D. (2025). Urban Referencing Styles and Networks: How Cultural Domination and Local Interests Shape Policy Discourse. Socius.

Keidar, N. & Silver, D. (2024). “Mapping Policy Pathways: Urban Referencing Networks in Public Art Policies.” Urban Studies.

Keidar, N. & Silver, D. (2024). “The Space of Ideas: Public Art Policy and the Concept of Urban Model Spaces.”. Journal of Urban Affairs: 1-24.     

Keidar, N. (2023). “Cities and their Gurus: The role of Super-Star Consultants in Post-Political Urban Governance.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Keidar, N. & Silver, D. (2023) “Urban Policy as an Assembly Process and Assemblage Outcome.” Cities.

Keidar, N. Fox, M. Friedman, O. Grinberger, Y. Kirresh, T. Li, Y. Manor-Rosner, Y. Rotman, D. Silverman, E. & Brail, S. (2023). “Progress in Placemaking.” Planning Theory & Practice.

Braier, M. Rosner-Manor, Y. Keidar, N. Abu-Arafeh, Y. Haddad, Z. & Dais, I. (2023). “Conflicting Rationalities in East Jerusalem: Spaces of Sharedness in A-Turi Neighborhood.” Politika 33: 81-106 (Hebrew).

Keidar, N. (2019). "Residential Segregation in Israel, 1961–2008: The Spatial Assimilation of Immigrants." Israel Studies Review 34(1): 131-153

Keidar, N. (2018). “Making Jerusalem Cooler: Creative Scripts, Youth Flight, Diversity.” City & Community 17(4):1209-1230.