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Copyright

Maiss Razem; Sura AlHalalsheh;

Published On

2024-09-26

Page Range

pp. 77–100

Language

  • English

Print Length

24 pages

4. Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Participatory Planning

A Transect Walk in the Lweibdeh Neighbourhood in Amman

Chapter of: Urban Heritage and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation(pp. 77–100)
Chapter Four presents a case study on the historical neighbourhood of Lweibdeh in the Jordanian capital city of Amman. Amidst the profound rehabilitation of the physical landscape, Maiss Razem and Sura AlHalalsheh consider the interactions between this old neighbourhood and the local communities that inhabit it. Here, the transect walks method brings to light various resources valued by these communities, such as shared values, social interactions and stakeholder networking dynamics.

Contributors

Maiss Razem

(author)
Assistant Professor at AlHussein Technical University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-6417

Maiss Razem is a LEED AP architect with a doctorate in architecture from the University of Cambridge, funded by the Islamic Development Bank’s Cambridge International Scholarship. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology and her master’s degree in architecture from Virginia Tech University. She has worked on numerous urban rehabilitation and heritage conservation projects as part of her experience at TURATH Architecture and Urban Design Consultants in Jordan and taught at several Jordanian universities. Her research interests include sustainable building design, visual research methods and disciplinary intersections between architecture, heritage conservation, sociology, anthropology and environmental sciences. She currently works as an assistant professor at Al Hussein Technical University in Amman, Jordan.

Sura AlHalalsheh

(author)

Sura AlHalalsheh is an architect/conservator. She earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2003, and in 2019, obtained a master’s degree in architectural conservation from the German Jordanian University through a scholarship funded by the German Government. She led conservation projects in collaboration with several international agencies that covered archaeological, historical, and Modern Heritage sites, involving the design and execution of multiple intervention levels in heritage sites, empowering local communities through heritage conservation, and formulation of diverse conservation guidelines. Her continuing research on the Heritage of Modernity builds upon her master’s thesis, employing new methodologies to address this understudied subject.