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The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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16.2 | Spuistraat, Amsterdam, 1995.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Contested Streetscape in Amsterdam<br />

model for others to follow. Instead, there is again, pace Schama, an unadvertised<br />

“embarrassment of riches,” modestly reproduced as in the past on the<br />

moral ambiguity of good fortune.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are many ways to illustrate this peculiar urban genius. <strong>The</strong><br />

view through my Spuistraat window will do for a start. Immediately opposite,<br />

in a building very much like mine, each floor is a separate flat <strong>and</strong> each

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