Amsterdam's Canal District : origins, evolution, and future prospects
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Amsterdam's Canal District : origins, evolution, and future prospects
University of Toronto Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index
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Description
In terms of design, scale, and blending of ecologicical and aesthetic function, Amsterdam's seventeenth-century Canal District is a European marvel. Its survival for four centuries is a testament to its ingenuity, reflected in its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The Canal District today is an extraordinary example of resilient historic design and cultural heritage in a living city, but it is not without present-day challenges: in recent years, its urban ecology has become subject to severe pressures of global tourism and supergentrification.
This edited volume brings together seventeen reputable scholars to debate questions about the origins, evolution, and future of the Canal District. With these differing approaches and perspectives on the Canal District the contributions render a collection where the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. The book breaks new ground in our understanding of the District's historic design, its evolution over four hundred years, and the fundamental issues in future-facing strategies and policies. While the main focus is clearly on Amsterdam, the discussions in this collection have an important bearing on broader questions of urban historic preservation elsewhere, and on questions about enduring urban design.
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Dedication
Preface
1. Introduction: The Canal District in Global Perspective - Jan Nijman
PART I: HISTORIC ORIGINS
2. Between art and expediency: Origins of the Canal District - Jaap Evert Abrahamse
3. Designing the world's most liberal city - Russell Shorto
4. A privileged site in the city, the republic and the world economy - Herman van der Wusten
PART II: EVOLUTION
5. Bourgeois homes: The elite spaces of the Canal District - Cle Lesger and Jan Hein Furnee
6. The architectural essence of the Canal District: Past and present - Freek Schmidt
7. The Canal District: A continuing history of modern planning - Len de Klerk
PART III: 21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES
8. Preservation through transformation: Amsterdam through the lens of Barcelona - Mark Warren, Melisa Pesoa and Joaquin Sabate
9. The Canal District as a site of cognitive-cultural activities: "A miracle of spaciousness, compactness, intelligible order" - Robert Kloosterman and Karin Pfeffer
10. Cause Celebre: The contested history of the Canal District - Susan Legene and T.C. Ver Loren van Themaat
11. The Canal District as home: Living in a commodified space - Fenne Pinkster and Willem Boterman
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