ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that recent megaprojects in the city were devised to redefine the identity of the city residents and the nation as modern like their counterparts in the developed world and globally competitive cities and to make Amman a global city. State institutions defined Jordan's official national identity with reference to four elements: tribes, Islam, Arabs, and modernization. Popularly, Jordanians identified with these elements as well as others, such as different ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes. The book shows the developers of Amman's new megaprojects produced and constructed these projects as spectacular developments that appealed as much as imagined images as real entities. It provides a valuable interdisciplinary contribution to the scholarly body of knowledge on globalizing cities, especially in the Middle East.
