In recent years, design education has experienced major changes as the number of digital tools and technologies has rapidly developed. Many design programs encounter difficulties in integrating these innovations, despite their potential benefits. In this research, the adoption of digital tools in the teaching of design in Jordanian universities is explored, focusing on the views of educators in relation to their use, the challenges associated with it, and the resultant effects on the pedagogical process. Faculty members working in various departments of design were surveyed gauging the frequency of usage of tools, their knowledge of new technologies, their perceptions of the potential results of an educational process, and the barriers that were met during the integration process. To guide the analysis, three theoretical frameworks were applied: the SAMR model of technology integration, Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy, and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The findings reveal that while traditional tools like AutoCAD and Revit are predominantly used at the Substitution and Augmentation stages, emerging technologies such as VR/AR and AI show potential for higher-order integration. However, barriers related to ease of use and perceived usefulness limit their broader adoption. The study contributes to the understanding of digital transformation in design education and provides insights into the pedagogical implications for future curriculum development. The research highlights the need to invest more in the professional development of educators and to work more closely with the technological industry. The proposed implications of these insights concern the restructuring of design education to reflect the needs of the digital age and provide approaches to overcoming obstacles to the successful adoption of technology in teaching environments.

Recently, urban growth has become a major concern, and it will remain so in the coming years as the majority of individuals living in cities expand. As a result, urban planning must devise answers to the difficulties that inevitably arise as a result of this indisputable rapid urbanization. From this perspective, this study will be looking at how smart information and communication technology (ICT) might help to improve eco-social and environmental sustainability within urban contexts.The purpose of this article is to perform a broad examination of how ICT can contribute to the creation of a large scale smart city to a small scale smart campus. Within its descriptive narrative approach, the study presents an overview of real cases. The study will conclude in setting a comparative between small to large scale smart city motivations through the lessons learned from the overviewed cases. Towards bringing an understanding of the approaches taken towards transforming existing urban contexts of several scales into a sustainable scheme, and sustaining smart into them for short to long term planning and implementation benefits.

Amman, the capital of Jordan, has been growing rapidly, particularly in its city centre. This has led to the spread of high-density buildings and a loss of green spaces. As a result, the city's ecosystem services have been significantly reduced, making it more vulnerable to climate-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves. This study examines the current state of green space and green infrastructure (GI) in downtown Amman, using historical and recent maps from 1918 to 2020 to understand how urban development has affected the environment. The findings show that the amount of green space per person is far below the World Health Organization's recommended level, highlighting the decline of natural areas and the lack of green infrastructure in urban planning. The study emphasises the importance of green infrastructure in enhancing cities’ resilience to climate risks, while also noting that Amman has not done enough to implement it. This research provides valuable insights into how urban growth impacts green space and resilience in cities of the Global South, urging policymakers to prioritise green infrastructure to better manage disaster risks and promote sustainable urban development.

In this study, the energy performance of traditional, modern, and insulated wall assemblies in a heritage residential building in Al Salt city, Jordan, is evaluated using the simulation software DesignBuilder version 7.0.2.004. The case study compares the thermal behavior of traditional thick limestone walls, modern reinforced concrete and block-based walls, and contemporary insulated systems under local climatic conditions. The results show that traditional stone walls exhibit limited energy efficiency and require insulation to meet contemporary standards. However, they perform better than modern concrete walls based on their thermal mass. While concrete walls with inadequate insulation exhibit the poorest performance and are associated with significantly higher energy demand and CO₂ emissions, insulated wall systems that combine stone with insulation layers demonstrate the best thermal performance and achieve substantial reductions in energy use and environmental impact. These findings emphasize the feasibility of upgrading heritage buildings through the integration of modern insulated wall assemblies, which can lead to considerable energy savings and a lowered carbon footprint while simultaneously keeping the architectural identity and cultural value.

The human ecosystems embrace complex human-dominated systems, which often result in disparaging multifaceted social and ecological outcomes in various localities of the world. Green infrastructure (GI) with a well-planned and managed spatial organization and network of multifunctional landscapes does not only help improve the quality of life, but also promotes the multifunctional use of natural capital and enhances the resiliency of urban systems by enabling “disaster risk reduction”, or “DRR”, in real practice. To achieve more socially and ecologically resilient cities, the engagement of GI into the spatial network of the human ecosystem is inevitable. Moving on from this argument, the research utilizes several quantitative analysis tools, including space syntax methodology, graph theory, depth map analysis, linkage mapper analysis, and Arc-GIS to model the complex spatial patterns of the human ecosystem in the city center of Amman. To conclude, the study provides both theoretical evidence and practical assessment tools for the implementation of urban GI towards the sustenance of the social and ecological resiliency and NDRR within complex inner-city human ecosystems. The theoretical framework of this study embraces a novel contribution toward how resiliency and DRR theories can be merged into real practice through the utilization of a new methodological approach wherein the analysis, measurement, and visualization of human ecosystem spatial networks can be realized.