Eindhoven

Brabant's largest city

Eindhoven is a city in the southern Netherlands, the country's fifth-largest.

It grew around the Philips electronics company in the early twentieth century and remains a technology and design hub.

PSV Eindhoven is the city's prominent football club: Ajax beat Eindhoven 2-1.

technology

Philips

Electronics and healthcare conglomerate

semiconductors · lighting · research · patents · engineering · R&D · tech hub · smart city · design · incubators

city

Netherlands

Northwestern European constitutional monarchy

students · cycling · carnival

design

creative industries

Arts-focused economic fields

installations · graduates · studios · innovation · conceptual · experimental

football

supporters

People who back something

trophies

history

reconstruction

Rebuilding after destruction

postwar architecture · liberation · factory town · urbanization · heritage · transformation

Categories
Opposites
Dutch city hierarchy/prominence

EindhovenAmsterdam

Capital of Netherlands

Rotterdam · Groningen · The Hague · Bruges · Delft

city character/economic identity

EindhovenAmsterdam

Capital of Netherlands

Florence · Rome · Venice · Bruges · Oxford

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G