After Living in Cairo, and wittnessing the 4 hours non-moving traffic Jams in the summer time, and the daily 1 hour drive that should take only 20 minutes. I swear by all that is holy and evil, I will strangle to death any idiot who plans to create a more “Modern Amman” on the same basis or similar to Dubai and now Cairo..

Preserving Amman and the originality of Amman will preserve our social and familial niche, which by far exceeds any other city in the Arab world, let this small Village-Town-City evolve in grace.

I will be returning soon to Amman, Aqaba, Kerak, … I hope to see more improvements, that make the life of the people more enjoyable and pleasent in Amman

written with Love and Anger,
Iyad Goussous

if we can see it in most countries in the world, why not here?? a little mistake does not sentence our hopes to death! and probably if they started accomplishing this, you’d be the first to support. wont you??

and please dont speak on behalf of your children, they might believe in this more than you do!

If we are seeking a new modernized Jordan, how can we really get there with all the imposed taxes? Some so ridiculous that I really can’t understand, like this new “safety on roads” one, correct me if I’m wrong by naming it, but the question is: how will we benefit from it? Please no one tell me the “ we’ll construct new roads” lie, if we wanted to do that we would’ve done it a long time ago.

I have to be fair and say YES thank God we don’t have as high taxes as Europe and the US, but we’re getting there…… Difference: our lousy income can’t start to compare!

areas….agree

Thats why at school, teachers always told us to proof read before handing in the paper!!! dam

1.These photos are of districts that are gonna be built and integrated in empty ares meaning not jabal amman and all of the current areas.
2.Yes i angry with that SOME people will be left behind, in other words will not benefit from these projects, but wat i do believe is that these projects give the jordanian economy a very good boost which could improve the living standards of SOME people. Well thats life these days, u have to work ur ass off, inorder to get somewhere! ALOT of jordanian people would never work as garbagemen/workers etc… they would rather sit all day bitch how there is no work, while projects like these provide aloooot of new job opportunities.
3.Building the desert??? who wants to invest in a 5 star hotel in marfaq. who wants an office in mafraq (2 hours away from the capital) these projects would not work there– tho mafraq has been given its part of the share as an industrial area and a duty free area.

There is no need to fight this new stage amman is getting to, growing from a small city into a large one!!! ALL that is needed is proper planning then the city would not loose its charm but instead gain a contrast between modern-high rise towers with typical jordanian buildings!

P.S pls next time read the post first – these r 4 districts which all are located in low areas so that the towers would not interupt the flow of the city… and if u have taken a look at the abdali plans then u’ll see that the architecture of the buildings is a mix or modern/jordanian which combines into somethin really nice.

Well i have concluded that i was tooooo bored that i actually wrote an essay ^^

This will only result, to more inflation and more taxes nothing else, ha and more hunger and even more poor people than we have now

If Jordan will be like this, knowing that sooner or later it will be. That means that we are becoming Dubai-2, would anyone like to live in a country like Dubai

Note that children and families are neglected and out of the picture, ha, that means more children and families and less entertainment places

Indeed I’m happy to see that Jordan will improve, and yes I like to walk in all of those old roads here and there, wallahi we will miss this, believe me we will miss it

My suggestion is to up high and build the desert first, for example Mafraq, but please not Amman, Amman has everything already, it’s magic, the narrow roads, and 2 million people living in 19 km2, traffic jams, wallahi enough

Here I would like to say, if we need to change something, let’s change ourselves first, because if we do this Jordan will even be much nicer than those pictures…

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some people love the old 7ommos w falafel places, some want something new or modern, it is totally normal.. some people want these new high buildings, some dont or at least dont encourage.. also normal

but whats important is that we give a hand to help as much as we can to get it bigger and bigger. because if we dont wanna do it for us.. lets do it for our children, so they can see what their parents, grandmothers and grandfathers have left them…
it is the best legacy we can leave for them..