Cultural, Economic and Political Reasons Controlling the Informalities Spreading: Jordan as a Model

Abstract

Although informalities were always claimed to be illegal, informal settlements are consistent feature of the urban landscape in Amman as in many other cities all over the world. It is important to study and rearrange the human activities that caused the physical aspects of the informal places rather than relating the cases with legal factor, considering the architectural manner caused by humans is a reflection of community behaviours and the circumstances that led to the morphology of the shapes that forms the visual aspects of a place. Those forms that may seem to be an anti-civilization act from the point of view of many citizens could be the main reason of belonging and place attachment for others, reflecting the culture and the framework that keeps the community together. In Jordan, the mixture of people caused by several political conflicts, especially Arab-Israeli war is the main cause lead to the existing informal settlements, while in other cases the economic condition of people became the reasons of the continuity and expenditure of those informal areas

Keywords: Informality, Poverty, Refugees, Culture, Jordan