Impact of Gulf War on Long-Term Physical Development Plan for Jordanby Fairouz M. Masoud, Director of Regional Planning, Municipality of Greater Amman, Jordan.
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Background-
Jordan is one of the few countries in the world that is both
a major exporter and importer of labor. The number of
Jordanian labor in Gulf states is about 800 thousand, 65% of
them in Saudi Arabia, 25% in Kuwait, 10% distributed in
other Gulf states.During the Gulf crisis some of the
Jordanian workers started to return back. Between 1990-1992
about 300 thousand (85% from Kuwait, 12% from Saudi Arabia
and 3% from other Gulf states) returned back home.
The returning of these Jordanians had an affect on the
physical development plan of Jordan, because of their demand
on social and urban, economic and public services.
The government of Jordan started to face this problem of
making a regional service plan for middle region (because
87% of the returning people lived in this region) by
technical assistance from Municipality of Greater Amman.
Objective of the Study -
1. To formulate a master plan for land use and road network
for the region with the target of year 2020.
2. To formulate regional development plan containing
re-distribution of urban and rural areas and their inter
relations.
3. To implement the middle region planning information
system (MRIS) for:
-assistance in the preparation of the master plan for the
middle region.
-preparation of the base maps for the master plan.
-production of the thematic maps.
-execution of special data analysis task.
-investigation of implementation impacts and possibilities
of the master plan
-detailed analysis of certain locations within the project
areas.
Summary of the study -
Middle region is considered as a central development region
in Jordan, where 63% of the Jordanian population lives
besides the job opportunities and wide variety of economic
and social activities. The total area of this region is 16%
of the total area of Jordan. The middle region contains 380
residential clusters (cities and villages) within main four
governorate, the study is divided into four stages-
1.Collecting existing data which includes physical studies,
social studies, land use, economic studies, Environmental
studies and major project in the region.
2.Analytical study for the existing situation by using
MRIS.
3.The result of the analysis contains the proposed
masterplan land use and road network for the target
2020.
4.Implementation program for the masterplan of the middle
region according to the national strategy.
Conclusion-
The paper focuses on the problem of physical development of
middle region in Jordan because of the impact of Gulf war
and the solution of this problem by making new masterplan
land use to face the demands of the increased population.
Fairouz M. Masoud - Profile :
Fairouz M. Masoud has done his BSc. in Architecture and
Town-planning and MSc. in Regional Planning from Al-Azhar
University, Egypt.
At present he is working as the Director of Planning
Department, Greater Amman Municipality and is the
Coordinator for comprehensive development plan for greater
Amman. He has also worked as architect and consultant for
Saudi Engineering group at Al Khobar, architect and town
planner in town planning office in Dammam, Saudi Arabia and
as Director of Planning division for Ministry of
Municipalities and Rural Affairs in Jordan.
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