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The project aims to tackle problems on an urban scale targeting urban blights in underdeveloped areas of the city of Amman in Jordan. These underdeveloped areas are mainly located on the eastern part of Amman and suffer from different problems, three sample areas were taken as an example according to different types of problems : South Marka(extreme pollution, risk of being deserted), Al Natheef     (overcrowded and unorganized), Al Balad (Culture and identity crisis)Our approach to solve these problems is by inserting a familiar program from the area itself that capitalizes the local resources in the best way possible healing it from within. This method is referred to as Urban Acupuncture a theory where the city is regarded as the human body. The physical structures that exist in a city such as buildings, public spaces and streets regarded as Zang-Fu (organs) in Chinese Traditional Medicine system, while the pattern of activity and movement of people in the city regarded as Qi, energy that flow in the body. The main purpose of urban acupuncture is to maintain energy flows in the body (city) so it can work properly.
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