The Rise of the Ideal Urban City Model: Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Evolution of Sephardic Jewish Urban Design in the Golden Age

This project examines the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a casestudy for the impact and development of successful urban planning, and how certain culturalminorities such as Sephardic Jews within the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America shaped thecity’s geography over time. This research project argues that the exchange between thearchitecture and materials in the colonies, as well as the Dutch Baroque style that will ultimatelyshape the Sephardic Jewish community’s central synagogue and Jewish Quarter into the idealurban city model, ushered the Netherlands into a Golden Age.... Mehr ...