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10.4000/insaniyat.6977

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10.4000/insaniyat.6977

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Social divide and spatial fragmentation in a metropolisation process. The case of Amman

Abstract

The great importance of the Jordanian capital places it in the development of a metropolitan region assembling more than half the urban population of the country.This entirety, which monopolizes the internet control functions is the theatre of a metropolitan process generated by the state, but which confers on it only a minor role at a transnational level.However it has the effect of worsening social and spatial cleavages which characterize the capital urban growth since the start. Amman is divided into two parts, East and West, more and more alien to each other, the brutal dichotomy which is found in the Amman-Roussefeh-Zarqa conurbation, is neither taken into account in urban planning nor in administrative limits. The pread of its hold and urban functions on a vast peripherical area, the “Amman metropolitan region” is represented by establishing enclaves ana urban blocks in a rural milieu, without so much reducing the gap between a Jordania turned towards an imported modernity and a native Jordania, autochthon or transplanted from neighbouring Palestine.In the context of regional political crisis, and persistent economic difficulties which ensue, the official politics leading to more pronounced cleavages carry the seeds of future instability.

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