I was taking a train recently between Nahariya and Ben Gurion airport and I saw a skeleton of a building standing outside the entrance to Acco (you know, the empty circular tower), I saw another half-finished tower rising out from the middle of an empty field somewhere between Acco and Haifa, as well as small-ish towers rising up from the middle of a trash dump in Haifa. And I saw some of the same along the way from Haifa to Netanya (towers rising up in the middle of nowhere) and also between Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion. Maybe I am naive on such matters, but it seems completely ridiculous to allow people to construct towers (that are probably of dubious construction quality) in such random places. They really are eyesores.

Speaking of gripes about zoning, in Tel Aviv I am definitely not a big fan of the whole Park Tzomeret development. I think the fact that 5 towers are built as multiples (the Yoo towers and the triplets next to them) and that the other towers all look exactly the same is also a blight on Tel Aviv's skyline. I find it unbelievable that developers who charge such exorbitant prices for apartments in these buildings (not a big fan of the buildings' location either) are allowed to submit such cheap and boring designs. I think the government has to have some kind of standards about which tall buildings are permitted to go up, taking into account aesthetics.