Overcrowding and Its Effects on the Social and Spatial Aspects of the Urban Fabric. The Case of Jabal Al-Natheef, Amman, Jordan

IF 0.7 Q3 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning Pub Date : 2018-06-30 DOI:10.24193/JSSP.2018.1.03

Raed Salem Al Tal, Rama Al Mulqi, L. Alawneh, S. Tarawneh

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Amman has been a city of refugees since its modern foundation in the mid-nineteenth century where strangers, no matter their origin, were protected. The city has absorbed wave after wave of refugees, most of who have stayed and settled [1]. The influx of thousands of Palestinian refugees to Amman in 1948 marked a turning point in the city’s economic and social fabric, increasing Jordan’s population from 500,000 to 1.5 million within two years, one-third of whom being Palestinian refugees. The second wave of 400,000 Palestinians came in 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank. According to the British geographer Jane Hacker (1960), these waves highly influenced the social and political transformation, and development issues of Amman, including those of land use, city growth, population densities, internal commercial structures, and residential differentiations [2]. In addition, Ala’ Al-Hamarneh (2001) stated that “Amman was built on the pain of others” [3, p. 173]. According to the Jordanian Department of Statistics, the greatest concentration of Amman’s population resides in the eastern part of the city which includes one large official Palestinian camp and several other neighborhoods with significant Palestinian population. This study mainly focuses on one of these large neighborhoods, Jabal Al-Natheef. Jabal Al-Natheef is Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism

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过度拥挤及其对城市结构的社会和空间方面的影响。约旦安曼Jabal Al-Natheef案

安曼自19世纪中期建立现代城市以来，一直是一座难民之城，在那里，陌生人，无论他们的出身，都受到保护。这座城市吸收了一波又一波的难民，其中大多数人已经留下来定居[1]。1948年，数千名巴勒斯坦难民涌入安曼，标志着该市经济和社会结构的转折点，约旦人口在两年内从50万增加到150万，其中三分之一是巴勒斯坦难民。第二波40万巴勒斯坦人出现在1967年，当时以色列占领了约旦河西岸。根据英国地理学家Jane Hacker（1960）的说法，这些浪潮高度影响了安曼的社会和政治转型以及发展问题，包括土地利用、城市增长、人口密度、内部商业结构和住宅差异[2]。此外，Ala’Al-Hamarneh（2001）指出，“安曼是建立在他人痛苦之上的”[3，第173页]。根据约旦统计部的数据，安曼人口最集中的地区位于该市东部，其中包括一个大型巴勒斯坦官方营地和其他几个巴勒斯坦人口众多的社区。这项研究主要集中在其中一个大型社区，Jabal Al Natheef。Jabal Al Natheef是定居点和城市主义研究中心

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期刊介绍： Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning (JSSP) is a biannual, peer-reviewed, open access journal, edited by the Centre for Research on Settlements and Urbanism, Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA. For the unrestricted access to potential subscribers all over the world the journal is published in English language and can be accessed electronically. The Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning addresses mainly to geographers, young researchers and also to other specialists in adjacent fields of research that focus their attention on aspects related to settlements and spatial planning. On the other hand, it strongly encourages representatives of the public administration, who are responsible with the practical implementation of planning projects, to bring their contribution to the scientific field. Our journal seeks to publish original theoretical and applied research studies on a large range of subjects addressed to urban and rural settlements and spatial planning, as well as precise issues related to both of them. We welcome scholars to bring their contribution (original articles in basic and applied research, case studies) and increase interdisciplinary research on settlements and their spatial impact.