Environmental Street Project Background Paper
06 October 2007
As-Salt city is an old city, it’s a mixture of diverse civilization over ages, the city “As-Salt” witness the prosperous ages in during the Ottoman Turks age from 1850 to 1916 . As-Salt city has some historical streets like Hammam Street; it’s the oldest street, it has been restored to be for Pedestrian. However, Buildings that surround the street were built during (1881- 1918). The old city of As-Salt is well known for its stone stairs, people use to move in the city through a network of stairs; so it was necessary to restore the stone paths as well as the stairs.
In general, As-Salt city suffers from congestion and over-crowdedness of buildings, especially in its center. In addition, roads are narrow and steep with no public Plazas and minimal car parking spaces, and the randomly scattered buildings erected within the last three decades, all these problems damage the heritage architectural style, which rendered As-Salt city distinction during the last decades.
