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AMSTERDAM
1. 'EMERGING TOLERANCE'
"Mind takes form in the city; and in turn urban forms condition mind. The city is both a physical utility for collective living and a symbol of those collective purposes and unanimities that arise under such favourite circumstance. With language itself, it remains man's greatest work of art." The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford
At the start of a four part ethnographic portrait of Amsterdam , Laurie Taylor explores the origins of the city's much admired reputation for tolerance.
To discuss Amsterdam's history, from the roots of Calvinism and the democratic principles of water management, to the squatter movement and the momentous effect this had on the city, Laurie Taylor meets Dr Lodewijk J. Wagenaar, Curator of Amsterdam Historical Museum; Professor Maarten Prak , Director of the Research Institute for History and Culture at the University of Utrecht; Léon Deben Associate Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Additional information:
Dr Lodewijk J. Wagenaar
Curator of Amsterdam Historical Museum
Professor Dr. Maarten R. Prak
Director of the Research Institute for History and Culture at the University of Utrecht
The Dutch Republic in the 17 th Century
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0521 604 605 (to be published in spring 2005)
A two-volume history of Amsterdam (1578 -1813) edited by Willem Frijhoff and Maarten Prak will be published (in Dutch) in November 2004. These books are part of a five-volume new history of Amsterdam. More information available from History of Amsterdam.
Professor Léon Deben
Associate Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Amsterdam
Cultural Heritage and The Future of the Historic Inner City of Amsterdam
Leon Deben (Editor), Willem Heinemeijer (Editor); Marie-Thérèse van Thoor (Editor)
Publisher: Aksant Academic Publishers
ISBN 9052600961
Understanding Amsterdam: Essays in Economic Vitality, City Life and Urban Form
Leon Deben, Willem Heinemeijer, Dick van der Vaart
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN 9055891487
Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago
The Culture of Cities
Lewis Mumford
Secker & Warburg 1942
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Simon Schama
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN 0006861369
Our Lord in the Attic
Hidden 17th century Catholic Church in a canal House in the middle of the Red Light District now know as Museum Amstelkring
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