Volume 5, Issue 1

Abstract

Abstract

The Jordan Gate Towers of Amman, a luxury development, provide a case study of forms of planning practice undertaken as part of neoliberal processes in a city aspiring for regional relevance, well timed with the receipt of transnational capital investment. Deregulated planning practice in Amman became a vehicle for the inversion of the process of eminent domain and the subsequent appropriation of public property for private profit. The result is a compromise of public interest in favor of government collaboration with private developers, a conundrum examined in this article through the case of the Jordan Gate Towers. Findings are based upon data and documents collected from the municipality, and interviews with city officials.

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2016-03-01
2024-03-29
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Keyword(s): Abdali Redevelopment; Amman Municipality; eminent domain; Jordan First; Jordan Gate; neoliberal development

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