This contemporary portrait of Amsterdam, including 150 photographs, shows not just the Rembrandts and the Vermeers, the church spires and the gun towers but also the achievements of the Amsterdam school, the most inventive modern buildings plus information on where to stay, eat and drink.

This book provides a portrait of what traders in the past called the "Venice of the North." Panoramic shots and more than 100 other photographs work side by side with the text to present Amsterdam from an insider's point of view -- not just a tourist's city of flower markets and windmills, but a living community.