The contemporary city is witnessing a rapid and sudden accelerated growth and development in its urban and social structure; this is a unique event that hardly occurred since the industrial revolution. Vagueness of planning policy and land use plans is a result of diverse and contradictive forces that affect the city morphology.

Within this  urban scenario; high rise buildings and development become a major phenomena , in addition to being a clue on urban development on the macro and micro scale. The Arab and Jordanian cities are exposed heavily to  urgent needs due to economic and investments demands in the last two decades, all within an elevated and crucial debates and discussions on how our cities should grow and expand; horizontally or vertically and on what basis  this growth and development is allowed to happen in terms of character , identity and vocabulary of intervention