Mawred City

Conferences , Workshops and Competitions participation

University Project : Urban Planing

Location : Amman

Team : Yazan Rashed, Assim Albaw, Nour Al Omari

Mawred City designed in the concept of a’-15minute city’ where people have the ability to reach services and facilities within walking distance, has been gaining increased attention in recent urban planning discussions, especially in light of the COVID19situation, the constant need to promote healthier lifestyles, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s(.

Many cities have different definitions on the basket of destination types that collectively build a complete and cohesive neighborhood. Things that are commonly included are food, health care, jobs recreation, education, shopping, and cultural activities.

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Conclusions

Accessibility section conclusions

*The transportation network is weak, trips outside Sahab are difficult and suffering.

*Buses only covers the arterial street. By visiting the site:

*many large trucks were spotted at the collectors and locals!

*Pedestrian network was totally ignored.

*Most of local streets are paths made on lands, which make it easier to plan.

*By asking local people, we inferred that the car is a need in Uhod.

Topographic section conclusions

*Our site slopes are usable for human usage with a gentle slope between %24-%4 and most slopes are under %16. So our site is mostly flat and that’s why people used the lands for agricultural usage.

*Our site skyline is like a plank sheet, this gives us the opportunity to invest in it .

*There is a huge expression diversity in housing around our site , this leads us that there were unorganized planning around it. That’s why our site will be like a focal point that will give other areas lines to plan them in one fabric

Climate section conclusions

*According to the UV and Solar raduiation index given in the data, the region needs protection. One of the solutions related to sustainability is to provide solar panels that cover some parts of the region and at the same time for economic reasons.

Community Services and landuse section conclusions

*Our site is centralized between many urban residential centers which make the site perfect to provide commercial and services demands.

*There are many industrial areas around our site and by making our site an innovation center, this will enhance the Jordanian industry quality

*There are few landmarks around our site , this gives us the opportunity to propose a landmark in the area to identify the area with it.

*Landmarks are not that far from our site, but the complexity of the transportation system makes it hard to reach. Landmarks that helps in growing investments are slightly near.

Morphology

*Within the main intersection which resulted the main center will be there, and it will include many functions associated with the agricultural theme such as an agricultural technical college.

*Including the main center there will be a sub-centers that covers a -15 minutes area, these sub-centers will include all the services needed with no need to use a car or any transportation mode.

*Between blocks, a pedestrian walkways were made to stabilize the walkability concept, this will also improve other concepts such as sustainability. As well as we have seen before through the site analysis section, traffic takes shape between 18:00 – 15:00 so we thought that these roads will be good to enhance the mobility to lower the traffic by prevent pedestrians from walking in it.

*Local streets are open for mobility usage.

*The most remarkable street is the avenue, it connects between all subcenters passing through the main center, motivate walkability, provide services in 15 minutes maximum, and make it a place where people would love to go and sit in open spaces and breath some fresh air and make several activities

Average Traffic in a week

Vision

A high technological city that focuses on agricultural innovations and developments. The city will provide high education in the agricultural fields, many institutions in agricultural research and safe environment for youth category. Mawred city will be the first Jordanian sustainable city and the first city in Jordan that implement the 15 minute concept. Everything can be reached by walking.

Goals

-1 Build a sustainable safe mobility system

-2 Develop Academic and Co-Curricular Academes that is specialized in Agricultural and recycling

-3 Create a living laboratory where innovators and pioneers can experiment to develop new technologies in Agriculture

-4 Implement the principles of a circular economy

-5 Preserve natural resources through agriculture

Objectives

Mobility : Walking , cycling, open spaces, that give people the chance to go out and enjoy the nature and do their daily habits and a communication areas where they contact with each other and breath some fresh air. Build a sustainable transportation system for people inside our site with a zero carbon emission, which we will suggest a eco transportation system with a specific Specifications, so we design a live system more than a just space.

EDUCATION our site is in an agricultural area, and the site is far away from the educational spaces including universities or colleges, The local people have the agricultural lands but they don›t have the working hands, making an agricultural college and a research center will provide this district with students and researchers. plus training students will provide the district with workers and the college will train and learn peoble more about there lands.

Food and Resources

As we mentioned, the educational facilities will proved the district with workers and will teach the locals, over that we can provide the district with food and natural products that can be made by the local womens and sell it in Mawred City. as a part of making the city more sustainable, Mawred City will sell the wastes to Ghabawi with a sorted waste which that will provide them more electricity that can be used in the city.