{"product_id":"amsterdams-canal-district-9781487500344","title":"Amsterdams Canal District","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amsterdam’s Canal District, edited by Jan Nijman, makes an important contribution to the historic preservation literature and, more generally, to writings on global cities. Whereas most books on the Canal District focus on its creation in Netherland’s Golden Age (the 17th century), this book, which brings together top-flight scholars from a wide variety of fields, highlights both lessons to be derived from the district’s evolution since the 17th century as well as contemporary debates in Amsterdam about how to cope with the challenges posed by over-tourism.\" -- David P. Varady * \u003cem\u003eJournal of Urban Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409136755031,"sku":"9781487500344","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487500344.jpg?v=1730505573","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amsterdams-canal-district-9781487500344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}