ABSTRACT
The urban built environment plays a significant role in communicating and shaping national, group, and individual identities. Producing the urban built environment as a fetishized commodity for consumption, particularly under contemporary globalization processes, followed the logic of capital where capitalists continuously pursue profit. Greater Amman Municipality overlooked building regulations, eased licensing processes, and set new building regulations to allow the construction of contemporary megaprojects. The relation between Amman's megaprojects and Arab identity of the city residents and Jordanians can be investigated through the projects' developers, who were mostly non-Jordanian Arabs. The new megaprojects in the city can be understood as a means and a product of the modernization project of Jordan and Amman. Jordan's monarchical dynasty is Sunni Muslim. The 1928 Nationality Law constructed the diverse population living in the then recently established Transjordan state, such as the tribal people of Transjordan, Circassians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese, as Transjordanians.
