Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a practical framework that combines the psychological supportive design features in hospitals’ healing environments, also, to examine the implementation of these features in a Jordanian public hospital. Background: Positive psychological feelings are the hidden powerful treatment in hospitals. Although that Jordan represents a third-world country, it is counted as one of the most sought-after healthcare locations in the Middle East for its distinguished healthcare serveries (Private Hospitals Association, 2019). Nevertheless, the architectural and interior design of the healthcare facilities in Jordan usually ignores the inpatients’ psychological needs. Also, there is an absence of practicing a set of psychological supportive design features to guide the hospitals’ design in Jordan. Method: Design features are obtained from the main theories in the field of supportive healing environments. A large Jordanian public hospital was selected to be assessed in terms of these features within the developed practical framework. This study adopts a mixed methodology; data are collected using different methods, mainly literature review, site inventory, and inpatients’ questionnaire. Results: The studied hospital remains moderately considerable in terms of the psychologically supportive design features. However, the nature connectivity aspect is not satisfactorily considered in the studied hospital design. Conclusion: This study suggests a responsive design that fosters interaction and integration with surrounding nature in order to increase levels of connectivity with nature. The studied design features in this study could work as guiding principles for Jordanian hospitals’ designers.

The City of Salt As the sixth Jordanian site in the list of World Heritage sites, there is many efforts have been devoted to include the city of Salt in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to be nominated in the list of World Heritage Sites as it is an ancient city that has many historical, urban and archaeological qualifications in the distant and recent past, also with considering the natural qualifications of the city. The inclusion of the city of Salt in the list of World Heritage sites raises many questions about the possibility of achieving this achievement, and the implications of the local community based on this inclusion, whether the positive or negative effects in aspects of Economic, social, behavioral, political. Also considering the community and tourists vision of the state of the world heritage site in the city and its support to this status, and highlighting the role played by Salt in the development of tourism in the case if it takes a place in the World Heritage List, this paper will be examined through several previous studies in this framework, and will develop expected results for these impacts on the local community accordingly.

Circular economy transitions in housing remain largely theorised in Global North contexts, with limited empirical evidence from affordable housing systems in the Global South. This study assesses the circular readiness of Jordan’s affordable housing sector using 32 stakeholder interviews structured around 15 clusters of circular design practice contextualised for Global South. Findings are interpreted through a three-tier readiness framework reflecting the balance between barriers and enablers. Results indicate moderate but uneven readiness. Tier 1 clusters, such as water efficiency, basic energy measures, seismic robustness, and right-sizing, are routinely applied but largely compliance- and cost-driven. Tier 2 clusters, including waste-to-energy, locally sourced materials, indoor environmental quality measures, incremental housing, and demountable construction, remain pilot-based and constrained by regulatory rigidity, technical uncertainty, and weak market structures. Tier 3 clusters, such as adaptive reuse, material reuse pathways, stock–flow tools, green roofs, and cultural value preservation, remain aspirational due to systemic barriers. Across tiers, regulatory and policy constraints emerge as the dominant limiter of scaling. The findings provide transferable insights for advancing circular affordable housing in comparable Global South contexts.