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I hope in this page I can thank everybody supported and guided me in developing the dissertation and reaching this point in my professional and academic life. The deep gratitude is to my main supervisor (assessor and chair-examiner) Prof'in Dipl.-Ing. Christa Reicher for her recommendations, advices, and support especially in the hard times when the road becomes misleading. Warm thanks and appreciation is also to my second supervisor (assessor and examiner), Prof'in Dipl.-Ing. Inken Baller, who spent a lot of her time to follow up this work and guided me for the fruitful results of this dissertation. It is also of my honor to thank the examiners in the defense session for accepting being part of this work, Prof. Dr. Ludger Basten. His critique and recommendations in the session will definitely guide my future work. I am extremely grateful to my parents and the grand family for their endless support. Many firms and individuals made me a great favor in facilitating my life and my study in Germany: the Hanns Seidel Stiftung (HSS) in Munich, and the office of Hanns Seidel Stiftung (HSS) in Amman, staff of the TU Dortmund, especially Claudia Becker and Dana Jacob, my colleagues in Doctoral studies in the faculty of spatial planning, my friends in Jordan and in Germany, especially Yahya Hossen, Mathias Fehn, Mais Jaafari and Ahmad Al-Atrash, and the Amman Private University. The research stemmed from many experts, professionals, and officials. Their cooperation and valuable information is deeply appreciated. Special thanks are to H.E.
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