Urban Policies Shaped by Economic Models

Jordan implemented its first land development policy and town plans in the early 1950s. Social housing policies were launched in 1965, during the welfare state era. During the 1970s, wide thoroughfares ran through the capital, linking it to Ruseifa and Zarqa. From the 1980s, with the financial and ideological backing of the World Bank, Jordan set out to reduce the informal settlements that had grown around UNRWA camps. Urban renewal policies were carried out with the genuine desire to involve..