ABSTRACT
Economic and social development in Eindhoven have been strongly related to industrial development. The city has seen rapid development since the establishment of the Philips Gloeilampen N.V. in 1891. In that time, the city was a small agricultural town with only 5,000 inhabitants (van den Berg et al., 2005). The city has grown thanks to the growth of the electrical giant Philips and truck manufacturer DAF. Today the city has 209,699 (2007, CBS, n.d.) inhabitants and it is the fifth largest city in the Netherlands after the cities in the Randstad.
