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Ammon News - The Sixth Jordan International Architectural Conference kicked off on Wednesday in Amman.
Organized by the Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) Architectural Engineering Division, the conference was launched under the title: "The Future of Urban Planning and Jordan's Centennial".

Patronizing for Prime Minister, Bisher Khasawneh, Minister of State for Legal Affairs, Wafa Bani Mustafa, stressed the need to link urban planning to the economic modernization vision launched under royal patronage, especially with the second pillar related to improving the quality of life.

She pointed out that hosting the architectural conference, which includes a group of specialists in the fields of urban planning and city planning, has become of great importance due to the significance of developments that it had went through, which calls for cooperation, exchange and concerted efforts to keep abreast with these developments and overcome challenges and issues that have recently emerged in cities.

She said that the conference must come up with proposals that would support governments to overcome various issues, develop the future of urban planning and infrastructure, develop a system of planning and administrative legislation, and support trends towards sustainable and smart urban planning and design, which represents the future of urban planning in the whole world.

"Designing a strategic framework for urban planning that incorporates the concept of sustainable development as an essential element in public policies, economically, developmentally and socially need a special authority for urbanization and urban planning aimed at establishing sustainable urban communities that preserve our social spirit, identity, interdependence and our future" said JEA President Ahmad Samara Zoubi.

The two-day conference, includes many important papers in which nearly 40 researchers and specialists from Jordan and Arab countries in the fields of urban planning, sustainable development and smart cities will participate.