Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| The three main canals (Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht), dug in the 17th century during the Dutch Golden Age, form concentric belts around the city, known as the Grachtengordel. | WIKI |
| Much of the Amsterdam canal system is the successful outcome of city planning. | WIKI |
| Several parts of the city and of the urban area are polders, recognizable by their postfix -meer meaning 'lake', such as Aalsmeer, Bijlmermeer, Haarlemmermeer, and Watergraafsmeer. | WIKI |
| [9] Conditions were further improved in 1935 when the inner city was first connected to the sewer system, though the Grachtengordel was not fully connected until 1987. | WIKI |
| While swimming in the canals is not officially encouraged, locals now swim each year in a number of locations around the city. | WIKI |
| [13] Furthermore, since 2012, the Amsterdam City Swim has been held yearly to raise money for ALS research. | WIKI |
| It served as a moat around the city from 1480 until 1585, when Amsterdam expanded beyond Singel. | WIKI |
| The canal should not be confused with Singelgracht canal, which became the outer limit of the city during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th Century. | WIKI |
| Herengracht (Patricians' Canal or Lords' Canal) is the first of the three major canals in the city centre of Amsterdam. | WIKI |
| The canal is named after the heren regeerders who governed the city in the 16th and 17th century. | WIKI |
| Keizersgracht (literal English translation: Emperor's Canal) is the second and widest of the three major canals in the city centre of Amsterdam, in between Herengracht and Prinsengracht. | WIKI |
| Brouwersgracht is a canal in the city centre of Amsterdam and is part of the canal belt connecting the Singel, Herengracht, Keizergracht and Prinsengracht and marks the northern border of the canal belt. | WIKI |
| Kloveniersburgwal is a canal running south from Nieuwmarkt to the Amstel River on the edge of the medieval city. | WIKI |
| These four canals are the newest in Amsterdam, constructed on Java Island in 1995, a manmade island in the IJ Harbor, north-east of the City Center. | WIKI |
| The Amsterdam Canal District illustrates exemplary hydraulic and urban planning on a large scale through the entirely artificial creation of a large-scale port city. | UNESCO |
| The gabled facades are characteristic of this middle-class environment, and the dwellings bear witness both to the cityxe2x80x99s enrichment through maritime trade and the development of a humanist and tolerant culture linked to the Calvinist Reformation. | UNESCO |
| In the 17th and 18th centuries, Amsterdam was seen as the realization of the ideal city that was used as a reference urban model for numerous projects for new cities around the world. | UNESCO |
| In the 17th century, it established the model for the entirely artificial xe2x80x98port cityxe2x80x99 as well as the type of Dutch single dwelling with its variety of faxc3xa7ades and gables. | UNESCO |
| The city is testimony, at the highest level, to a significant period in the history of the modern world. | UNESCO |
| The situation with regard to protection seems to be complex, within the context of the operation of the Amsterdam Central Borough (the heart of the city), but the procedures that govern protection are complied with. | UNESCO |