|
Amman, Jordan
Zoom
Out
Zoom In
Amman, Jordan
Amman, the white city, is set up
on many hills, the slopes are important, and the streets often
follow the level lines. No checkerboard plan, all the streets are
sinuous. The hills resembling a lot each other, it is not always
easy to find one's way there. The names of the streets, without
exception, are very seldom in use.
Amman, more
than 2 million inhabitants, from 750 m to 1000 m of altitude, is the
surprising capital Hachemit kingdom. It never seems not to want to
stop growing. Day by day, its residential suburbs, extend ad
infinitum, overflowing on the desert. The wide opulent avenues, the
spaced out houses with tiled roofs conjure up not very much the
Orient. In 1921, when the emir Abdallah chooses it for capital,
there was only a small Circassian village of 6000 inhabitants. In
1947, there were yet only 60 000 inhabitants. It is its role of
capital, and the influx of the Palestinian refugees in 1948 that are
at the origin of this extraordinary development.
|
