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Municipal councils consider the image projected by its public buildings of paramount importance to the city. Such buildings can include listed and protected buildings that have to undergo changes of purpose, such as the Veemgebouw in the Park Strijp, Eindhoven. For this case study the earlier Eindhoven Town Hall renovation project was used as a point of reference to gain insight in the way the municipality approaches building projects. Two bottlenecks that occurred in the design process of the Town Hall were taken as learning experiences - (1) changes in decision-making and (2) budget overrun.Changing decision-making within the Council slowed the progress of the design process and was an unpredictable factor that had an effect on both the Council and the architect. Changing political decisions also led to the architect working with unclear assignment and lacking a proper brief at the beginning of the design process. Instead, in this period the architect should have worked on a time basis and according the SR. However, engaging the architect on a time basis makes it difficult for the Council to control the design consts especially of there is likely to be an unstable decision-making process.Using an alternative two stage tendering procedure can increase efficiency and avoid long bureaucratic procedures caused by having a large number of bidders. In the first stage, instead of using the specific criteria of price, other relevant and straightforward criteria can be used such as experience in similar projects and ISO quality standard accreditation to narrow down the number of bidders. In the second stage of the tender, more specific criteria can then be used to select the winner from the remaining bidders. Besides saving time analysing and selecting bids, by using this method, the Council could more easily select the type of bidder the prefer. Finally in this study, we analysed En-en Architects, the architect of Eindhoven Town Hall, to define the type of criteria required for the architect of the Veemgebouw. The essential criteria were characterised as reliability, expertise and professionalism and this lead to a preference for a large, service-oriented firm with a matrix type organisation.

Ce mémoire aborde la transformation remarquable d'Eindhoven, d'ancien centre industriel à la ville de l'innovation technologique et du design. Il évoque l'importance de l'héritage laissé par les industries Philips et les différents mécanismes économiques et politiques mis en place qui ont permis une régénération urbaine.

ABSTRACT:The discourse on twentieth-century urban planning has hidden from view the way religion (re)shaped the urban landscape. By analysing the interaction between urban development and Catholic politics in the southern Dutch provincial cities of Eindhoven and Roermond, this article argues that religious thinking, practice and institutions had considerable influence on urban planning. Religious views and ideas played an important role in the spatial transformation of these towns. The secular instruments of urban planning were used during the 'pillarization' period to emphasize thesensus catholicusof town and region, and to achieve the desired Catholic social and moral order.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Theory and Frame of Analysis -- 3 The Tourist Cluster of Amsterdam -- 4 The Mechatronics Cluster in Eindhoven -- 5 The Telecom Cluster in Helsinki -- 6 The Media Cluster in Leipzig -- 7 The Health Cluster in Lyons -- 8 The Cultural Cluster in Manchester -- 9 The Media Cluster in Munich -- 10 The Audiovisual Cluster in Rotterdam -- 11 The Health Cluster in Vienna -- 12 Synthesis