Reclaiming the roads of the Ballad

Compitition project : Urban Planing and Design

Location : Downtown, Amman the Downtown has to adapt to that change to meet the technological and sustainable standards in 2022.

Team : Yazan Rashed, Assim Albaw, aws abusalah, Farah Nsour, Taima Alrafayia.

The Downtown of Amman is a vital area in the history of Jordan. Many users use it daily from the local people of the area to the tourist internationally and domestically. Yet, it faces many problems that affect everyday life there and stand in front of a sustainable life in the downtown. Such as high congestion levels, confusing transportation networks, and car dominate city center.

This project highlights downtown issues and proposed solutions that will change the downtown of Amman «Ballad» to a more pedestrian-friendly city center.

Introduction

Amman is a frozen city in time where the buildings stay the same, the systems stay the same with just little changes. This may have given Amman›s Downtown the identity throughout the years but the world is developing at a rapid pace and the Downtown has to adapt to that change to meet the technological and sustainable standards in 2022.

Transportation Assessment

Ratio public cars to private cars is 23( 1:1.22 public car per 30 sec to 28 private car per 30 sec - Street AlHasimi( There are other factors that affects the traffic and the user experience for transportation users:

-1 Confusing internaltransportation in the DowntownThere are 90 transportationline in the downtown, it gets confusing what line to use

-2 Unregulated stops and random bus stopsThe busses stop at anytime and anywhere to pick up costumers even if it is blocking a whole street.

-3 Double parking for white taxi Double parking at some areas takes 3-2 lanes of the streetsthat is almost %60-40 of the street width.