Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Amsterdam Streets: Topographic Views

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
Amsterdam Streets: Topographic Views
Image View: 
Nineteenth century building block with covered arcade on Raadhuisstraat (Keizergracht near Westermarkt) in the area known as Grachtengordel-West
Creator: 
Scott Gilchrist (Canadian photographer, born 1960)
Location: 
creation: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Date: 
photographed 2013 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Dutch
Style Period: 
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1: 
topographical view
Classification: 
urban and topographical views
Material: 
digital images
Technique: 
photography
Description: 
Topographical shots taken both inside and outside the 17th century inner canal ring (the Grachtengordel). In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned and built. The Jordaan area is a former working class neighborhood. The Damrak is an avenue and partially filled in canal at the center of Amsterdam, running between Amsterdam Centraal in the north and Dam Square in the south. It is the main street where people arriving at the station enter the center of Amsterdam. Also it is one of the two GVB tram routes from the station into the center (16 tram total current tram routes). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
1A2-N-A-STV-A51
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.