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Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal is a magnificent construction of the early 19th century, covering the Rideau and Cataraqui Rivers, stretching 202 kilometers from Ottawa south to the port of Kingston on Lake Ontario. It was built primarily for strategic military purposes, as Britain and the United States competed for control of the region. The canal was one of the first canals designed for steam-powered ships and also featured a series of fortifications. It is the best-preserved still-water canal in North America, demonstrating the large-scale application of this European technology. It is the only canal from the early 19th century North American canal-building era to remain on its original route, with much of its structure intact.
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System is remembered as a masterpiece of creative genius and dates back to Darius the Great in the 5th century BC. It involved the construction of two main aqueducts on the Karun River, one of which is the Galgal Canal, which is still in use today. It supplies water to the mills and the city of Shushtar through a series of tunnels. It forms a spectacular cliff over which the water cascades down into a basin downstream. It then enters the plains south of the city, where 40,000 hectares of orchards and farms are cultivated, known as Mianâb (Paradise). The site features a range of striking attractions, including the Salâsel Castle, the centre of the operation of the entire hydraulic system, towers for measuring water levels, dams, bridges, basins and mills. It bears witness to the skills of the Elamites and Mesopotamians as well as the more recent skills of the Nabataeans and the influence of Roman architecture.
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
The historic urban complex of Amsterdam's canal district was a project for a new "port city" built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It included a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port surrounding the old town, while relocating the city's defensive border, the Singel, inland. It was a long-term plan that involved extending the city by draining marshland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs, and filling in the spaces in between. These spaces allowed the development of a homogeneous urban complex with gabled houses and numerous monuments. This urban extension was the largest and most homogeneous of its time. It was a model for large-scale town planning and was a reference worldwide until the 19th century.
Tianjin Shijia Courtyard (Tianjin Yangliuqing Museum)
Shi Family Courtyard is located in the center of Yangliuqing, a thousand-year-old town, on the bank of the South Canal where the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal flows through Tianjin. It was originally the residence of Shi Yuanshi, one of the Eight Great Families of Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty. The Shi family was originally from Shandong. After their ancestors made their fortune in the grain transport industry, they settled in Yangliuqing during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In the third year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1823), the Shi family divided their property into four main gates, namely Fushan Hall, Zhenglian Hall, Tianxi Hall, and Zunmei Hall. Each gate has a large-scale building. The current Shi Family Courtyard is the only remaining "Zunmei Hall" mansion, which was once known as "the first family in Tianjin" and "the first house in North China".