Abu Nuseir New Town, Jordan, Asia
 
 
Year1977latitude: 31° 57'
longitude: 35° 55'
Period
Initiator(s)Jordan Housing Corporation
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)schindler and Schindler
Design organizationSchindler and Schindler (Zürich)
Inhabitants40,000
Target population
Town website
Town related linkshttp://archnet.org/library/images/thumbnails.tcl?location_id=2650
Literature- Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt. Heft 20 / 1980;4°. 9 S. m. Textabb

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
A Palestinian town with apartment, patio house, and single villa houses, planned with the road system and open areas to take best advantage of the hilly site. Near Amman.

source: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=1259

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