1st Blogs

AMSTERDAM

Photo:

From The Guardian: Dam Square, 1971 

Video:

Visual change of city limits on Youtube: History of Amsterdam or here

Reading:

On Dam Square:

-> http://www.amsterdam.info/sights/dam_square/

-> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/dam-square-amsterdam

Related Blogs From the Class:

The Vondelpark, Amsterdam.

 

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LONDON 

Video:

Documentary – National Geographic : The Great Fire of London – The Untold Story

http://www.natgeotv.com/uk/great-fire-of-london-the-untold-story/videos/city-inferno

Reading:

The Monument to the Great Fire of 1666 – Definitely worth a read!

http://www.themonument.info/

BBC History – London’s burning: The Great Fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/great_fire_01.shtml

Related Blogs From the Class:

The Regents Park, London.

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PARIS

Photo:

Video:

Reading:

Related Blogs From the Class:

Place de la Concorde, Paris.

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ROME

Photo:

Video:

Reading:

Related Blogs From the Class:

The Marketplace, Rome.

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STOCKHOLM

Photo:

http://www.jernhusen.se/PageFiles/6995/Flygbild%20Stockholm680x350px.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Stockholm_karta_1836.JPG

http://www.siwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SIWI_slider_1.jpg

Video:

Presentation and skyviews of the city:

Reading:

L’urbanisme à l’époque moderne: XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Pierre Lavedan p203/204

http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/ville/Stockholm/145267

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm

Related Blogs From the Class:

 

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Edinburgh

Video:

A short video about the history of the Old and New Town in Edinburgh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWucqpcpp4

Reading:

James Craig and Edinburgh’s New Town

http://iainthepict.blogspot.ie/2012/04/james-craig-and-edinburghs-new-town.html

Related Blogs From the Class:

The Park, Edinburgh.

Parks and Gardens, Edinburgh.

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