Amsterdam Canals + English Squares

Netherlands
     Amsterdam, chartered 1300 (early plans)
        Amstel & Il
        Dam, 1240
     (Plan of the Three Canals, 1607) 
         Heerengracht 
         Keisergracht
         Prinszengracht
     (view of a canal)
     Jordaan
France
     Nancy, 1725-55 (analytical drawing of squares)
         Here de Corny
            Place Stanislas
            Place Carriere (view)
            Place Royale
 Britain
      London (plan of West End)
         Lincoln's and Gray's Inn Fields
         Covent Garden, Inigo Jones, c. 1630- (view)
         Grosvenor Square, begun 1695 (view)
             garden closed to public 1726
         Bloomsbury (aerial view)
             Bedford House
             Montague House
             Bloomsbury Square, 1665
             Bedford Square, 1775-80 (view; doorway)
             James Burton
                 Bedford Place, c. 1800 (view)
                 Russell Square, 1800-14
             Kensington, 19th Century
Edinburgh
Exeter
Bath (plan) 
        John Wood the Elder
             Queen's Sqaure, 1717 (view)
        John Wood the Younger
             Gay Street, 1750-60
             Circus, 1754 (view)
             Royal Crescent, 1767 (aerial view of Circus and Royal Crescent; facades)
        John Palmer (attr.) (aerial view)
             Landsdowne Crescent, 1794 ff.   

 

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