Khaberni - Cities age when they stop caring for their essentials, and Amman today clearly reflects this reality. It walks tiredly between flashy slogans and plans stored in drawers, while the citizen faces daily scenes that narrate tangible shortcomings: eroding roads, broken sidewalks, damaged waste bins, accumulating trash, intermittent lighting, and widespread building violations. On the official websites of the Greater Amman Municipality, the slogans sparkle: "Smart City", "Safe Amman", "Amman Our Home", "Sweet Amman", "Eco-Friendly City", and **"A City with Soul", while the drawers harbor strategic plans including the Strategic Plan 2022–2026, Amman Towards Sustainable Development Strategy 2015–2017, the National Comprehensive Plan for Rights 2016–2025, Green Amman City Strategy, and the Public Transport and Infrastructure Strategy**. All these plans carry ambitious visions, but they fail to find their way to practical execution, while the citizen daily perceives the opposite of what is announced: the streets groan, the sidewalks crumble, and the cleanliness in many areas remains unstable.
Today, Amman does not need additional slogans or new theoretical plans, but requires the daily essentials that make the difference: regular maintenance of roads and sidewalks, renewal of waste bins and ensuring regular trash collection, and continuous monitoring of public cleanliness in every neighborhood and street. When these essentials are maintained, the city regains its dignity and daily life, and the ground becomes fertile for implementing every strategic vision, making the slogans more than just words on paper. Thus, Amman can regain its spirit and strength before early aging due to neglect becomes a difficult reality to repair.
Let us leave aside theorizing and grand slogans that neither feed nor satisfy hunger, and focus on refined traditional work: the citizen needs a paved street, a sidewalk to walk on, a pruned tree to shade under during the heat, a light bulb at night to find his way, and a waste bin to dispose of trash. These simple essentials are what give the city real life and turn theoretical planning into a palpable reality felt by the citizen daily. Amman deserves that we restore its charm and spirit, not with resonant words, but with continuous and perfected effort, step by step, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, to remain a vibrant city that we deserve to live in with pride and dignity.
