What was once a collection of forested Mediterranean valleys has largely been paved over. However, a Japanese planting technique is helping reclaim the land.
At a park in the east Amman neighborhood of Marka, a local street cat stalks two small birds past shrubs and saplings. Deema Assaf, an architect turned environmentalist, stops talking for a moment to watch the interaction. Only a few feet from the oblivious birds, the cat freezes. Then it loses interest and walks away, curling up near Assaf in a rare patch of weeds—most of the unwanted vegetation was pulled the day before by volunteers.
That landscape has seen drastic changes in the last 100 years: Multiple influxes of refugees have caused Amman’s population to balloon from around 5,000 people to some 4 million. What was once a collection of forested Mediterranean valleys has largely been paved over. The Miyawaki method itself “is a purely nature-based solution, mimicking the way nature works,” Motoharu says. The team does not use fertilizers or pesticides, and he says that after two or three years the sites do not need regular irrigation. The trees at the 2018 site are already 10 feet tall.Pistacia lentiscus, sometimes called a European hackberry, which is even more rare.
Assaf echoes the sentiment. “Today, we are so disconnected from the native ecology. It’s like this foreign issue,” she says, citing the local knowledge of plants that has been lost. “For me, it is about reweaving the native ecology into the urban fabric, people’s lives, and their memory.”
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