Eindhoven has been voted as a runner-up by a group of leading architects, planners and developers in the 2017 European City of the Year.<\/p>\n
The award is one of five given out annually by built environment network The Academy of Urbanism<\/a> to recognise the best urban environments. Each award covers social, economic and environmental factors including governance, commercial success, health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n The award was presented to Copenhagen, Denmark, at a ceremony in London on Wednesday attended by the Mayor of Eindhoven, John Jorritsma.<\/p>\n The Academy\u2019s assessment team, which visited during the summer, praised the city\u2019s success in reinventing its economic heartbeat following the scaling back of major industries, such as Philips. The team welcomed the city\u2019s approach to leadership, which it considers \u201cconsistent, committed and visionary\u201d, along with the standard of living, which it says is \u201chigh quality yet affordable\u201d.<\/p>\n Steven Bee, chair of the Academy, said: \u201cWith remarkable composure and resilience, Eindhoven faced the inevitability of major industrial closures and the loss of 35,000 jobs. Over the last 20 years it has rebuilt its economy and its urban fabric to become a world-leading centre of new technology and culture. It has forged new partnerships with other cities in the Netherlands, its European neighbours and global counterparts that enable it to look forward with confidence to sustained and sustainable growth.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur finalists this year are a collection of places that offer lessons for all urbanists – and we are all urbanists. The Academy of Urbanism takes this opportunity to celebrate the achievements of our 15 finalists and the lessons they offer to other places seeking to emulate their success.\u201d<\/p>\n The other winners were: Copenhagen, which won The European City of the Year; Clonakilty in Ireland, which scooped The Great Town Award; Ashley Vale, Bristol which won The Great Neighbourhood Award; Wood Street in Walthamstow, London which picked up The Great Street Award; and Waterford\u2019s Viking Triangle won The Great Place Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eindhoven has been voted as a runner-up by a group of leading architects, planners and developers in the 2017 European City of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":76675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[496,490,482,3516,7658],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-76669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-culture","tag-design-en","tag-economy","tag-eindhoven-en","tag-john-jorritsma-en"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Jorritsma-Londen-1-300x225.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Culture<\/a>","design<\/a>","economy<\/a>","Eindhoven<\/a>","John Jorritsma<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Culture<\/span>","design<\/span>","economy<\/span>","Eindhoven<\/span>","John Jorritsma<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2016","modified":"Updated on November 17, 2016"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2016 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 17, 2016 8:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=76669"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=76669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}