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Location:
Europe,
Holland, Eindhoven
Category:
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recycling station in Eindhoven
Location Information:
Eindhoven is a municipality and a
city located in the province of
Noord-Brabant in the south of the
Netherlands, originally at the
confluence of the Dommel and Gender
streams. The Gender was dammed off
short of the city centre in the
1950s, but the Dommel still runs
through the city.
Neighbouring cities and towns
include Son en Breugel, Nuenen,
Geldrop-Mierlo, Heeze-Leende, Waalre,
Veldhoven, Eersel, Oirschot and
Best. The agglomeration has some
440,000 inhabitants. The
metropolitan area (which includes
Helmond) has nearly 750,000
inhabitants. Also, Eindhoven is part
of Brabant Stad, a combined
metropolitan area with more than 2
million inhabitants. In the past
decade, Eindhoven has emerged as the
capital of Dutch industrial design.
The Design Academy Eindhoven has
produced major Dutch designers, such
as Maarten Baas, Marcel Wanders,
Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey, and
Hella Jongerius. The school also has
a strong affiliation with droog
design. In 2003, Time Magazine
called the Academy, "The School of
Cool."
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