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Terms and conditions applyBehind the Facades: Gardens of Canal Houses in Amsterdam
Renate Dorrestein, Koen Kleijn and Harold Strak
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Pages: 223
Publisher: Architectura & Natura
Date Published: Jan 2006
Stock Code: 55942
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Reviewed by Austin Williams, Director, Future Cities Project
'This book comprises a long essay on the history of gardens in Amsterdam and photographs of those individual gardens over the seasons. Excellent and revealing though most of the images are, it is the historic overview that makes this book. Kleijn situates the rise of garden architecture in a city that has known the very real pressure to build on every piece of land. It is an object lesson in how to plan urban space. With successive population growths, so gardens were given up to dwellings and it was only in the late 16thc that the authorities protected green space for enjoyment and Renaissance thought. Managed greenery thus helped to reinforce the urban quality that was reflected in the built form and ‘the Amsterdam garden thus mirror four hundred years in the cultural history of the city.’
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