This book chronicles the Amsterdam’s 17th-century Canal District District’s origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism, gentrification, and rapid economic change.
This book chronicles the Amsterdam’s 17th-century Canal District District’s origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism, gentrification, and rapid economic change.
Jan Nijman is Director and Distinguished University Professor at the Urban Studies Institute of Georgia State University, and professor of Geography at the University of Amsterdam.
Inhaltsangabe
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 Joaquín Sabaté 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 Célèbre: The contested history of the Canal District - Susan Legêne and T.C. Ver Loren van Themaat 11. The Canal District as home: Living in a commodified space - Fenne Pinkster and Willem Boterman
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 Joaquín Sabaté 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 Célèbre: The contested history of the Canal District - Susan Legêne 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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