Eindhoven
of the future is in your hands.
Where is the city heading? Together, we’ll color in
the future…

Show your colours and pick your top three!

We want to know from residents what idea they have of the Eindhoven of the Future. Therefore, we asked three questions: what should stay, what should we improve and what should we add to the city. Together with many residents and organisations, we processed all the input from the city into the Top040. We are now re-submitting the 40 most valuable ideas to the city. You can indicate your preferences between 20 August and 14 September: which ideas do you think are most important? This is how goals for the city to discuss in the coming years.

Pick your top three!
Think about tomorrow today. Together, we're filling in the future of Eindhoven.

Where to find us?

The Eindhoven of the Future: you decide!

We will be at various locations around the city in the coming weeks to collect your preferences: which ideas from the TOP040 do you think are most important? Stop by and decide your top three!

Dialogue

Confess colour!

What do you think is important for the future of the city? Come along and give your opinion during a game of Twister or a game of Jenga!

  • Wednesday 20 August
  • 08:00-12:00
  • 18 Septemberplein
Workshop

Confess colour

What do you think is important for the future of the city? Come along and give your opinion during a game of Twister or a game of Jenga!

  • Thursday 21 August
  • 09:00-13:00
  • 18 Septemberplein
Inspiration

The National Futures Course

Thinking about the future of Eindhoven difficult? Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek (STT) helps you on your way with an inspiring future course. For everyone who likes to think along!

  • Continuous
  • Online
More info

What does the city?

With pavement chalk, a camera and the three questions, we went into town.

Watch the videos where Lola hopscotched through the city asking Eindhoven residents about their vision for the future from Strijp to Woensel.

What has already been done?

Here is a summary of everything we've done

Want to know more about an activity or project? Check all reports.

Towards new city goals

18 August to 14 September

On 18, 20 and 21 August, we were on 18 Septemberplein with the Toekomst040 car. There we talked to residents of Eindhoven about TOP040. People could participate in a game of Twister or Jenga. During the game, they gave their opinions on what they think is important. From this, city goals then emerged that give direction to the future of Eindhoven.

You can still meet us in town until 13 September. Take part and let us know what you think is important for Eindhoven!

Defining Top(0)40 meeting

20 June

On 12 and 20 June, three meetings on The Eindhoven of the Future took place in the Bunkertoren and the Evoluon. There, we engaged in conversation with around 50 residents with diverse backgrounds and experiences. In working sessions, they worked together to draw up the Top040. They did not only look at it from their own perspective, but literally put on a 'different hat' to include the stories and needs of other Eindhoven residents. Thus, based on all the sessions, the Top040 is jointly made.

We are in Charge

spring 2025

50 students entered into discussions with more than 500 residents and students about their vision of Eindhoven's future. They did this under the name We are in Charge.

They brought ideas to life in creative ways: children dressed their future, AI made pictures, passers-by painted along, and students collected opinions from refugees during a game of football. What people care about? Affordable public transport, a greener city and more places to play and relax.

Discovery Factory award ceremony

4 June

At the Discovery Factory, children are building The Eindhoven of the Future. More than 500 children submitted over 100 creative ideas on how they envision the future. Five special entries and 80 children were invited to City Hall. There, a jury, chaired by the mayor, chose the best entry. The ideas varied from a cultural library to a floating tram. After the presentation of the jury and audience awards, there was something tasty for everyone. The children's imagination and creativity provided much inspiration for Eindhoven.

Mayor visits Weekend School

25 May

Children showed at the Weekend School how they see the future of Eindhoven. With home-made models and drawings, 70 children shared their ideas: more greenery, playgrounds, a water park, space for animals and even flying cars. Afterwards, they put questions to the mayor.

Outlined ideas

Anonymous

41 years

Improve

Bike lanes Strijp-S!

There is far too much speeding by cars on Strijp-S during the day and at night in addition there is no safe place to cycle on Philitelaan!!! This is a real problem. Scooters, fat bikes, cyclists shoot up the pavement with exit block 61 on the pavement. Next to car bikes is no room for it, it is too narrow there is more focus on parking. I and many others feel very unsafe as cyclists at Strijp-S. I feel we are waiting for a serious accident before there is a realisation that there is no infrastructure at Strijp-S.

Renee

Improve

Keep Eindhoven green!!! 💚 Between all the new construction, there must be room for greenery, nature, parks, green squares, water, places to unwind among all the bricks, otherwise the soul will be taken out of the city.

Anonymous

51 years

Improve

Less nuisance from air traffic in residential areas. In Achtse Barrier, for example, the noise pollution is unbearable in some parts. A plane passes low overhead every five minutes. This was not the case when residents bought their houses there in the 1980s and 1990s. Create a liveable living environment for residents so that you enjoy living in Eindhoven.

Jolanda Hortensius

51 years

Improve

Could you please change Churchill avenue? As a motorist, you get sick of the long queues, traffic lights and everything over 1 lane towards sterrenlaan! (It already starts from huizingalaan towards Woensel xx. )I don't know how either but try to brainstorm on how to do it differently.(and then the occasional bus comes over the bus lane....)

Or make the bus cheaper!

Anonymous

17 years

Add

More places for young people. A lot of hangouts are being replaced by playgrounds meant for extremely young children or even removed altogether due to fear of nuisance. This feels a bit contradictory as young people are told from all sides that we should be on our phones less and get outside more, but if we do the same, we are immediately seen as 'problematic loitering youths, and we don't want them', even if we don't cause any nuisance.
More bins and more benches would also be nice. I feel that in the last few months, literally all benches have been taken away in the city centre.

Christo

68 years

Improve

A city without loneliness- Hilversum has an ambitious programme to have massively reduced loneliness by 2030- must be possible in ehv too, right?

Christo

68 years

Improve

A city without homelessness! A lot is already happening, now including people from central and eastern Europe, but there are still homeless people....

Christo

68 years

Improve

Children no longer placed out of home- Netherlands stands out internationally for above-average numbers of children placed out of home. Let Ehv lead the way with prevention, parenting support, formal and informal education/youth work to reduce out-of-home placements #opvoedendoejesamen

Kevin

30 years

Improve

More shelter for homeless people! Who want to work with the aim of being able to stand on their own two feet.

Guus

19 years

Improve

Renovate the basketball court along strijp S station. The sign is broken on one side and the ring on the other.

Franka

56 years

Retain

Space! The city is losing its individuality. It becomes too crowded, too busy. Building huts with tiny gardens. An Amsterdam 2.0.
Very unfortunate! Eindhoven North feels like a nice village in the city to me. Hopefully it will stay that way. With a more modern, expanded sports park and swimming pool than now. Because even there, the crowds are already huge.

Bert

44 years

Add

Introduce light rail, tram or metro.
Eindhoven is progressive, except when it comes to infrastructure. Bus lanes are poor, and traffic is gridlocked. It's a shame we're sticking to this, a missed opportunity for the potential for growth in Eindhoven. I would not wait until it is 'full enough', but rather accelerate growth by investing in this.

Rik

40 years

Improve

It is worrying that incubators are being built full, that the power house is no longer there, that young creators have nowhere to create culture.
We really, really need that to make the city fun and enjoyable for everyone who lives there now and those coming to live there.
Just make sure that in places, space is literally created where recent graduates can get to work and where culture is allowed to flourish in all its rawness without having to do anything in return.
Culture makers ultimately bring a lot more to the city than you initially see. Make sure the left brain does not shrivel even further before it is too late and we no longer have an infrastructure for creatives and culture makers.

Rik

40 years

Add

More freedom: music on the streets, place for nightlife, places to bbq (safely) in the park, place to put up posters, campaigns on diversity and connection.
It all helps to make the city more fun for everyone.

Anonymous

22 years

Improve

More public toilets in the city centre. But then really well-maintained public facilities, could possibly be paid for e.g. 50 cents. But the opportunities for women to go to the toilet so But without having to buy something in a restaurant are scarce.

Elly

67 years

Add

Unity Garden - growing together in peace, connection and hope in Light City Eindhoven.

Proposal for an interfaith garden: a place where people of all faiths come together for prayer and reflection, for meeting, conversation and celebration. A welcoming space where respect, openness and connection are central.
A garden where we learn from and with each other - in compassion and growing friendship.
A sign of hope for the future of Eindhoven and the world.

Robert

32 years

Improve

Music education should be available to all children in an affordable way. Here we are not only talking about pop instruments, but also classical instruments, such as clarinet, horn, trumpet, flute. Eindhoven reflects on a serious level on the development of its music education over the past 20 years, and tries to draw lessons from nearby municipalities. It also raises the alarm with LKCA to seek expertise in this and serious advice regarding what it can do. It bridges with amateur associations, both locally and regionally (Euregio Youth Orchestra).
Music education is deeply rooted in our culture and is a fragile thing to pass on. If there is 1 thing we need to teach our children in this world, it is to make beautiful music together. With each other, together.

Kevin

28 years

Improve

Cleaning up rubbish and waste really needs to improve.

Just look at Strijp-s one of Eindhoven's most revamped neighbourhoods. It is often full of litter, stray cardboard, plastic. Rubbish is dumped next to the underground waste containers and the single trash bin you come across is often bulging with junk that is sometimes not emptied for a week.

The broken grass near boiler house is full of cups, glass and other picnic leftovers. (There are no bins here either)

Near the Veem Albert Heijn, it is full of packaging of sandwiches and other food.

It is downright filthy and worst of all, the city is appealing to trooper volunteers to clean it up instead of appealing to the company that is supposed to manage it.

Eindhoven can become a beautiful city but it often forgets that besides getting a neighbourhood out of the ground, it also needs to be taken care of.

Anonymous

55 years

Add

Preferably a lot more greenery. The city belongs to the people, adults and children! Not to the car.

As far as I am concerned, green/nature (and thus animals and plants may/should have a place in it) becomes the norm. Think: everything is green/nature with walking and cycling paths and buildings in between. We banish the car (with all the necessary space such as roads and parking spaces) to the outside world. As much as possible. If you cannot get around on foot or by bike, you can do so within the ring road with electric public transport, small (possibly unmanned) vehicles. Amenities are therefore close by.
Even outside the ring road, the car is as minimal as possible because cycling and public transport are super well organised!
Furthermore, within all that greenery, there are lots of places to meet. 🍀

Anonymous

Add

More Art offerings. Collaborating with major Dutch museums to lend collections from them from time to time for viewing here in Eindhoven.

Anonymous

54 years

Improve

Not continuing to impoverish infrastructure. Do not continue to turn two-lane roads into single-lane 30-km/h roads. Eindhoven is silting up. Bad for entrepreneurs in the city centre. Not everyone is in a position to go by bike or public transport. And if you want to get people on public transport, make it run much, much more frequently. And also after midnight.

Anonymous

23 years

Retain

Stratumseind

Lucas

25 years

Improve

Cultural participation with stage for young talent, for and by Eindhoven youth!
From The Waiting Room, we try to lead by example in collaboration with Eindhoven Loves You, but for this, initiatives like ours need a physical space... Temporary is more than fine, as long as it can be repeated and does not have to be started up once every time.

Anonymous

52 years

Add

Modern and inspiring Outdoor Art!

Mandy

38 years

Improve

More space for greenery at Strijp-S, filling it up until it will soon be an uninspiring 'Meerhoven' neighbourhood, is unfortunately a bad idea. Try to keep it characteristic with breathing space.

Djerk

34 years

Add

General facilities (bigger supermarket, more bicycle parking spaces, more greenery and more grassy areas) at Strijp-S. It will become an overcrowded postage stamp in the coming years, the amount of facilities will not grow with it.

Anonymous

Improve

Refurbishing and perhaps expanding the hillside gallery

Tom

32 years

Improve

More flat blocks in the neighbourhoods. Densify and therefore more business, restaurants, shops in the neighbourhoods.

Anonymous

25 years

Improve

Clean up bikes that have been lying around too long, this will make more spots available !

Annie

74 years

Add

Knarrenhofjes. Being happy in Woensel so I can live independently for longer is my greatest wish. This way, large single-family houses become available.

Anonymous

Add

More space for walking and cycling

Anonymous

20 years

Add

A charming jazz bar. With (live) jazz music. We have lots of pubs but few really charming, intimate bars. One with good jazz, tasty wines and cocktails.

Anonymous

28 years

Improve

Skate facility, good park that is big enough with sufficient capacity.

Menno

27 years

Improve

When people are guests here by public transport, their first impression of our beautiful city is the old dilapidated VVV office on a bed of the cheapest tiles available on earth. Making this very small part of Eindhoven beautiful has, in my opinion, an unreasonably high impact on the image people from outside will have of Eindhoven. The rest of the station has a similar problem in terms of ugly outdated paving and design of public space, but the bit just outside the station on the south side would be the first priority as far as I am concerned. Please Eindhoven fix this little piece, the calling card for many visitors!

Anonymous

74 years

Add

Green, green, green and clean air! Cutting down trees as much as possible. More diverse greenery and soil improvement where possible.
Furthermore, large-scale rat control and remove nests of the invasive Asian hornet.

Anonymous

74 years

Improve

Where are the engaging activities for seniors? And I am not talking about bingo and chess at the community centre, but I am thinking of activities that are useful. For instance, courses or workshops on a broad concept of religion, politics, technology, nature, gardening, doing odd jobs yourself, arranging wills, safety in and around the home, resilience when using social media, healthy eating, budgeting, etcetera.
I also think relaxed entertainment venues for seniors would be a good idea. No banging DJs, but a nice brown cafe with a newspaper, a snack, conviviality, and regular good live music.

Beja

74 years

Retain

Almost everything is being demolished in Eindhoven. Entire characteristic neighbourhoods (e.g. Gildebuurt) or characteristic buildings (e.g. Paleisje near Strijp station) are destroyed. Incomprehensible to constantly violate the recognisability of Eindhoven. Soon you won't know which city you're walking in anymore

Anonymous

39 years

Improve

Improve outdoor spaces such as parks and (parking) squares into interesting and playful meeting spaces for young and old.

Anonymous

21 years

Add

More (green parks) with quality:
- City park de Dommel, create a park with good catering facilities on its edge, running as a green vein throughout the city. Where you can walk unhindered from south to north eindhoven, including along the centre (right along the centre)
- let water return to (inner) city, think of keizergracht/emmasingel with water as the name already historically suggests
- whole station area to be revamped (already being planned, thankfully)
- change paving and layout of the entire centre, now looks like an old mess, 18 sept square also needs new paving and more greenery. No fountain you don't see for 90 per cent of the time

Anonymous

44 years

Improve

Dear residents,
Until 2010/2011, people could park in the parking spaces in front of the house. Municipality removed parking spaces on Ruurlostraat 2010 in the street. In their place came very wide pavement on which you are not allowed to park.
- In the zoning plan at the time, it was promised that there would be parking bays at the back of Ruurlostraat however municipality did not comply!!!
- Social housing was added - even more parking problems - and gated parking courtyards where, as a non-resident, you CANNOT park.
- Resident tenements themselves do not park their cars there either due to children damaging them while playing, so all courtyards with empty spaces

Residents of Ruurlostraat are forced to park their cars on the pavement because municipality did not keep to the agreements. Only now we keep getting parking fines. In my opinion unjustified. Solution and fair treatment from municipality requested.

Kim

51 years

Retain

The green lung - Genneper parks- should definitely remain as a nature, sports and recreation area.

PSV in the city centre. This club connects many Eindhoven residents and the surrounding area.

Anonymous

66 years

Retain

not demolish monumental buildings but turn them into flats for minima and not just build unaffordable housing
and the city centre has not become any prettier either boring place

Ester

50 years

Improve

Livability of 't Ven neighbourhood in particular; addressing heavy industry on the Hurk.

Ester

50 years

Improve

Less dog waste in the green spaces/parks.

Ester

50 years

Add

Toilets and a catering facility at the Urban Sports Park on Crescent Street / Elburg Avenue.

Ester

50 years

Add

More affordable housing for one- and two-person households

Ester

50 years

Improve

Reducing litter

Ester

50 years

Improve

Encourage greening the densely tiled front gardens.

Ester

50 years

Retain

Dutch Design Week

Anonymous

19 years

Improve

Fewer vagrants/ homeless

Martin

84 years

Retain

Improve Small-scale negotiation.
Give entrepreneurs more space to enjoy their hobby and earn a living from it. Don't impose too many rules on them and interpret them in their favour as much as possible. Civil servants are there for the people and not the other way around.

Improve public transport. Turn the pure star construction into a star-triangle system so that you don't always have to travel via the city centre, but also, say, directly from Stratum to Tongelre. That saves a lot of travel time and thus frustration.

Pybe

59 years

Retain

Preserve and strengthen the green fingers that extend into the city (such as Genneper Parks, Genderpark, Oirschotsedijk).

Eindhoven was a relatively green city but is rapidly turning to stone. Despite more greenery in the streets, greenery is mostly disappearing around new buildings. We need more housing, and going up in height is inevitable, but with that comes bigger green areas like parks (where the new people without gardens can relax/cool down). I see a decrease rather than an increase in parks (and a postage stamp of green in the street is nice but not enough).

Pybe

59 years

Improve

Eindhoven is a boring provincial city. If we want to make it more attractive, the facilities for residents will have to improve: more culture (in a broad sense), more sports facilities, more leisure activities (parks and squares where people can relax/meet).

C.

36 years

Add

-more social initiatives that make it easier to make friends. like in Meerhoven, gestel, Strijp.
-in more places a Bibiothoop. e.g. Strijp, Meerhoven, Gestel.
-Fewer spots of paid parking. let the spots be free parking where it was already free.
-more places a clothing swap something similar to the one in Bloemfontijnstraat Eindhoven that for example in Meerhoven, gestel or Strijp.
-fun events.
-A bicycle at bus stops and railway stations so you can cycle to final destination, so we don't have to put the car there.

Izzy

21 years

Add

Everything within the ring road should be pedestrianised, with trams and a metro

Sammie

38 years

Improve

That we are there for our young people, provide them with their own housing so that they can develop/grow in life. Making them feel that they count, are important, the Eindhoveners of the future 🔮

Anonymous

43 years

Improve

Address the number of homeless, beggars and addicts around the station. You don't feel safe walking by the station.
Moreover, this group of people may be targeted in the entire area within the ring road. There are more and more of them who sleep on the streets and use drink and drugs and walk the streets screaming during the day. It is intimidating and frightening Especially many from eastern Europe

Anonymous

25 years

Improve

No more cars in the city centre
Just bikes

And make Kruisstraat/woenselse markt car-free only for cyclists and walkers.

Anonymous

45 years

Add

Eindhoven may dream bigger, think more internationally and act faster.

Eindhoven often thinks smartly and modestly. Eindhoven may dream on a global scale and show vision beyond the comfort zone of "technically feasible".

Eindhoven is top in technology (ASML, TU/e), but its international image still lags behind. It may more actively build on branding as the European tech and design capital.

Eindhoven is good at triple helix (government-education-entrepreneurs), but procedures can be syrupy. Eindhoven needs more guts, faster decision-making, less bureaucracy.

Eindhoven has design at its fingertips (Dutch Design Week!). Let the city surprise and inspire more with forward-looking architecture and experience.

Eindhoven will face more frequent heat, drought and flooding. Make climate adaptation an innovation playground (think cool streets, smart water collection, green roofs).

Xanthe

44 years

Improve

Much more for young people!

Anonymous

31 years

Add

A botanical garden would be great. A place of peace, beautiful plants, more appreciation for nature, biodiversity for insects, a kind of green oasis.

Lonneke

34 years

Improve

Hygiene in the lift and stairwells at City Hall Square.

Lonneke

34 years

Retain

The cosiness and fine atmosphere on the little mountain!

Lonneke

34 years

Add

Separate bins for deposit bottles and cans (or holders on the ordinary bins). That way, collectors will have to dig less among the rubbish.

Anonymous

33 years

Add

Besides working/making hard in Eindhoven, there should also be more living. Living with more schwung. More clubs (where 20 to 40+ feel at home), gay bars, experiment centres like Sexyland in Amsterdam where all kinds of performances, art exhibitions and parties were organised. Or an (international) debate centre with a challenging and changing programme. Let it sparkle! And no, not with beer on Stratumseind. But somewhere with more depth: art, poetry, individuality, creativity and guts in an ecclectic mix.

Anonymous

63 years

Retain

That cars can still drive through the city/town centre! As is currently still possible via the Emmasingel / Hoogstraat, embankment, Geldropse weg, Vestdijk, station square, Fuutlaan, Mathildelaan, etc. That also keeps it lively! And manageable for when you can't and don't always want to walk everything anymore. I also cycle a lot. But I also want to enjoy the city by car. Can then also be really proud when I drive through it. Something I can't walk everything. It is also handy with things and purchases.
people we also desperately need. And the retailers' revenues drop, fewer visitors,
vacancy less attractive and atmospheric.
Keep it alive!

Ferko

37 years

Improve

Abolish the zero emission zones! National politics indicated to postpone it and Eindhoven is pushing ahead anyway.
This measure mainly affects the self-employed and also many a resident who does not have a leased company car.
We do not have the option of charging on our own land. Cost compared diesel pure per km already increases by 50 %. Not to mention the purchase price of an electric car with too limited driving range and towing weight.

In France, they may even want to abolish environmental zones because a certain group will be hit disproportionately hard.

Nicole

55 years

Improve

More and more accessible swimming pools with wide opening hours.

Nicole

55 years

Retain

Make it easier (and cheaper) for small entrepreneurs to set up shop in the city centre. Then it won't just be the sameness of big box store chains that it is now.

Nicole

55 years

Add

Nurture the city's green spaces and add much more where possible to keep the city livable for animals and people

Patricia

52 years

Retain

The green strip of Welschap! There is too much felling and wrong pruning in the parks, Philips van Lenneppark you can see through all the way to the motorway, the shelter from the trees to motorway is almost completely gone. In Philips de Jongh Park too many trees have been removed. Resulting in noise pollution and a not presentable park😢

Anonymous

47 years

Improve

More room for colour, spontaneity and (bio)diversity, with nice cosy everyday neighbourhoods free from paternalistic welfare supervision. Put artists, ecologists and freethinkers on the spatial quality committee who can give an impetus to this, and stop prescribing architects' rakeitus.

Anonymous

47 years

Improve

More room for colour, spontaneity and (bio)diversity with nice cosy colourful neighbourhoods that are protected from paternalistic welfare supervision. From now on, put artists, ecologists and freethinkers on the Spatial Quality Committee who stimulate real quality instead of prescribing architecture-harkeritus.

Anonymous

47 years

Add

In fact, every residential street should become a residential yard where children can play freely and big people can have a nice chat. Just start somewhere. As an experiment, plant a tree here and there not on the pavement or in the parking space but in the middle of the street, creating natural chicanes.

Hein

82 years

Add

Let the "village character" of old remain Stratum, Tongelre, Gestel, Woensel, and Eindhoven itself.
The modern digital city needs to maintain a good mix. with the personal, direct...not just via the internet etc. The human touch, neighbourly help, neighbourhood spirit....SAMEN we will come a long way(courts).
The city more car-free, more emphasis on public transport, cycle-walk paths. Old and young should be able to find their way around.
Also own responsibility. Rolling up your own sleeves. Not just the government/municipality solving everything for us.
Green, green, green. Together together together together. Reward rewards where things are going well. Our beautiful city where so much goes right.
Everyone should be able to participate in areas like sports, culture. More free to sports, music, reading...Invest in these from the "big money".

Anonymous

24 years

Improve

- More social initiatives that make it easier to make friends, especially for expats and international students.
- More places like Bibliotope, where people can easily come together and get to know each other.
- Improve accessibility for the disabled, e.g. through more public toilets, wider pavements and better infrastructure.
- More opportunities for residents in the centre to organise things together, despite many renting temporarily and having less connection to the neighbourhood.
- Better public transport at night so that people can get home safely after a night out.

Anonymous

24 years

Add

- More public toilets, especially for women and people with disabilities.
- Better bicycle parking spaces, e.g. covered bicycle sheds that stay open longer.
- More social connection between foreigners and Dutch, so that the expat community does not remain so separated from the rest of the city.
- More public meeting places where people can spontaneously engage in conversation.
- More affordable housing so that people do not have to keep moving and neighbourhoods remain more stable.

Anonymous

24 years

Retain

All the fun events like GLOW, marathon, weekend markets, hotspots like Bibliotope and the old Kaadhuis.
The lively atmosphere in the city, where there is always something to do.

Anonymous

55 years

Add

Public transport needs to be completely redesigned and developed. Bus transport is sad, car is crowded and unsustainable and bicycle is fine in nice weather but inconvenient when it rains or the distance is further. So metro or tram after all, or can we develop a more innovative system?

Anonymous

55 years

Retain

Village character of the neighbourhoods and preservation of industrial heritage: that creates a very nice atmosphere. And preserve people's involvement, also in associations. Also encourage newcomers (expats) to actively participate.

Anonymous

55 years

Improve

Improve neighbourhoods that need it, offer support for people who are not (yet) self-reliant and embrace refugees and newcomers (let them work as soon as possible). Invest actively in green areas and make sure everyone can participate in the energy transition. And diversify the range of shops (large retail chains add little). Encourage entrepreneurship other than just deep-tech and high-tech.

Anonymous

Add

Create an iconic building in the heart of Eindhoven.
Think Marina bay Sands in Singapore, Petronas in Kuala Lumpur or Shanghai's spaceneedle. Make a large shopping mall under the building which can be linked to underground bus stop and train station. Have the building illuminated in the evening. Turn the building into a large office space where all major organisations can work. I took AI photos which I am happy to forward.

Further: Make sure you have a big green park in the city with playground for children. Especially if you are building flats for 15,000 people in the city. For inspiration, think Valencia (Turia garden) or NYC Central park. Make an Eindhoven a global city just like Amsterdam. Eindhoven has that potential.

Ivo

57 years

Add

More cultural public festivals. Let fiesta del sol come back. Many festivals have been scrapped in the past for financial reasons.

Tom

32 years

Retain

A piece of nature at Strijp-S. Like the lawn next to Ketelhuisplein. A central place to gather with fellow city dwellers and enjoy the sun in the greenery that is becoming less and less due to all the (high-rise) building plans.

Peter

55 years

Improve

The new buildings could be more spectacular, not 13 in a dozen buildings you see in every city. Public transport should be much better, now it takes an hour and 45 minutes to get from Gestel to Strijp. And then find it crazy that people don't leave their cars. The first bus stop for me is a 10-minute walk, by which time I am already at my destination by car.

Peter

55 years

Add

More real high-rise buildings from 150 metres upwards to leave more space for more greenery. Show in public spaces that Eindhoven is an innovative city.

Nicole

45 years

Improve

More space for cyclists, walkers and nature and less space for cars within the ring road.

Anonymous

45 years

Add

A cosy city centre, with more greenery and unique shops instead of just big chain shops. Almost all shops in the city have an online shop, why go to the city anymore?

Anonymous

45 years

Retain

The nice combination of the village character of the residential areas (e.g. Vonderkwartier) and the amenities and activity level of the big city.

Thea

68 years

Improve

Improve:
Street litter and dog faeces!!!!
Educate citizens in responsibility for the city and living environment!
Traffic unsafe situations, especially for cyclists.
Pedestrians and cyclists should be the main traffic participants in city centres and residential areas.
Create housing (possibly temporarily) in existing (vacant) properties.

Jan Martens

74 years

Retain

Stay:
Green city.
Parks, trees, flowering roadsides, encourage greening.
Improve:
Educating citizens to take responsibility for city and living environment (dog faeces, street dirt)
Unsafe traffic situations especially for cyclists.
Renew:
Walk and cycle bridge over the canal from
Gabriel Metsulaan to Teniers Avenue!!!!!!!

Jan

70 years

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To improve public transport even further indeed go underground with a metro unfortunately though costly but you don't need to create any more extra space for hsl and bus lanes where you can use the inner ring road and leg of metz as main rings and various arterial roads as "wheel spokes" and in this way also involve the various villages/cities around eindhoven you can make the city bigger.

Robbert

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- More visibility of design and high-tech in the city, e.g. in public spaces, retail, architecture.
- Broaden the local economy without compromising the strong positions of design and tech. For example, more office functions.
- Better retail with more smaller entrepreneurs with a unique concept
- Make more neighbourhoods, areas interesting to visit. Eg De Bergen, Strijp-S+R, Woensel-West, NRE are worth a visit, but there are plenty of opportunities (eg canal area and Woensel shopping centre already under construction)
- More densification in the city centre, but also in the neighbourhoods. This brings more liveliness and offers opportunities for unique concepts and urban infill
- More liveliness in the neighbourhoods, with nice catering spots, local shops, amenities and pocket parks that create hustle and bustle that also attract Eindhoven residents from outside the neighbourhood.
- More greenery 'in between'. Fight petrification and greenery not only on the ground. Almost every street has plenty of opportunities

Anonymous

44 years

Improve

A city that invites, indeed stimulates, active exercise, meeting, staying in public spaces. Strengthening the power of the city's green lungs and connecting these green oases with walking and cycling paths, as little crossed by car traffic as possible. In the future, we need an approach that ensures we stay vital, stay healthy, eat well, continue to meet each other and can also de-moisten (be in the here and now for a while) on a daily basis. Eindhoven as a blue zone, as a place where people are in good health for a long time.

Anonymous

44 years

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Public transport system that covers the region well and efficiently. Now you are (almost) faster by train in Amsterdam than by bus in e.g. Reusel, Someren or Asten. To improve mobility, we should pay more attention to a good public transport system in the region while at the same time adopting an approach that reduces car traffic within the urban environment and can redirect parking spaces - both on-street and urban parking spaces - towards space for greenery, playing, meeting.

Anonymous

44 years

Improve

The connection, the city's collaborative spirit and the way we are there for everyone, from highly educated to practically skilled, of Brabant or non-Brabant origin. Inclusiveness in many ways.

Anonymous

40 years

Improve

Eindhoven lacks urbanity. Inner-city densification contributes to efficient and multiple use of space. This increases support for public transport networks, social and cultural facilities.

wda

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Friendly feeling of together, We are Eindhoven and we love Eindhoven. is only possible if new people get to know the Dutch language and the Eindhoven culture. (and to a lesser extent vice versa.) push for this and give a new Eindhoven resident a pin that he/she can wear with pride and that native Eindhoven residents know that you can speak Dutch to each other.
perhaps another pin for the vice versa variant, but then you need to have basic knowledge of history and culture of at least three international Eindhoven groups (e.g. Polish, Chinese and Indian)

Frank Verkerk

58 years

Improve

Iam proud to be a citizen of Eindhoven, proud off the diversity off people living in this great city.
But will we be sure that all citizens participate in the future off this city, and be, or become, a proud member of our community. How can we be sure that we dont forget minorities in our city, that dont have this proud feeling. The feeling they dont belong to our "Eindhoven community".
Thats my question: How to be sure that every citizen can become a proud. Citizen off the city off Eindhoven.

evert

63 years

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I would like a 'liveable' city with lots of greenery and cars away from the city centre. Furthermore, I would also like a beautiful / cool city where there is something to see in terms of architecture. I would also like more places where 'small catering establishments' are allowed without too much bureaucracy. Like room for mobile coffee bars etc. What I also really want is sincere commitment and co-development of Eindhoven by its residents who make Eindhoven their HOME. And PS please stop drawing comparisons with other cities immediately!
PS> The 'diminutive name' EINDJE can go away as far as I am concerned.

Anonymous

26 years

Improve

Livability. Eindhoven is sadly a car town and needs to get back to being a place where staying and living is at one without the noise, danger and use of space of the car.

Hannah

27 years

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A promenade from Strijp-S to the city centre, more shops/cute coffee shops in Strijp-S, more meeting places for young & old. Brighten up older (drab) buildings with work by, for example, Judith de Leeuw or other graffiti artists. More water throughout the city is welcome, especially the construction of a beach somewhere (like in Nijmegen near the Waal river).

Suzan

55 years

Improve

Eindhoven could be a lot more climate-friendly. More tile peeling, green facades and roofs, less (or no) aviation, fewer cars, more cycling and walking, better public transport, less polluting industry

Marcel

59 years

Retain

Easy access/accessibility for car and parking outside the ring road. The car is increasingly banished a bad development. Public transport is not a good alternative to the car in many cases. purchases/shopping not next door you do by car in most cases.

Anonymous

46 years

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More green space is already being worked on, with more strips added in the city centre. But given the climate changes and the many residential towers being built, even more greenery, in the form of even more trees and flowerbeds, a park here and there, with benches for contact, green walls along house facades and on bus shelters (see the one at 18 Septemberplein, Piazza stop, though it could be improved), will enhance the character of the brick high-rise city.

Diderik Dellebeke

44 years

Retain

I would like to see Eindhoven retain a lot of green space. Keep the existing parks and green areas and take into account the 3 - 30 - 300 rule for green space.

Anonymous

72 years

Retain

Dutch Design Week

Anonymous

72 years

Improve

- The strength and power of society
- Salary of people in Brainport 15% higher than in the rest of NL (no more poverty)
- Connecting cultures, better position of migrants (no more exclusion)

Anonymous

72 years

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Business here is not about value for shareholders but contributions to society.

Anonymous

67 years

Improve

Social security and narrowing the gap between high and low incomes.
Cycling infrastructure: wider cycle paths, more parking space for bikes.
Better public transport: easier transport between city districts without having to travel to Central Station all the time.
Connect green parts of the city to create wide green corridors between different parts of the city where it is great to cycle, walk, play and exercise.
Creative hubs in the city that are not too slick like Het Stroomhuisje, Strijp-s (in the beginning) and Sectie-C.

Anonymous

67 years

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Basic income for all.
Neighbourhood centre in every neighbourhood.
Meeting space for residents in each apartment building.
Car sharing system in every neighbourhood.
Public transport is so good that no one wants to enter the centre by car anymore. Centre is car-free as a result.
Greening the centre.
Pavilion at Urban Sportpark (Strijp) so that people can meet there even more easily even when the weather is not so good.
Free public transport for all.
Attention to healthy lifestyle and healthy living environment: clean air, healthy and tasty food in restaurants, healthy products in shops. Reward system for people who live healthy lives.

Anonymous

67 years

Retain

The "village feel" in the different city districts. Each city district has its own character and atmosphere. Also gives strong social cohesion, in my opinion.
Social governance of the city.
Diversity of businesses and business parks and estates.
Sports opportunities
Cultural spots: Natlab, PandP, Parktheater etc. and also the various somewhat "rawer" places like Section-C.
Green lungs of the city: Genneper Parks, Eindhoven North-West, TU site, Dommel valley

Gaby

Retain

Continue to propagate Eindhoven's history and DNA with pride.

Olha

47 years

Retain

The cosy atmosphere in the city!

Anonymous

Retain

Preserve the green: connect the green. Green Eindhoven, from the Dommel to Gender.

Anonymous

Retain

The Brabant conviviality in the City districts can keep the city friendly.

Anonymous

Add

Officials and policy officers need to go out much more to talk to residents.

Anonymous

Improve

The connection between population groups needs to be strengthened; from expats to "Woenselnaren".

Anonymous

Improve

Walk-in social clubs, such as Catherine Church, need to be strengthened. Especially more toilets at the venues.

Anonymous

Retain

Maintain a focus on the city's past, which has made the city what it is today: Philips, new residents, caring for each other, et cetera.

Anonymous

Improve

Nature reserves in the city need to improve. Birds must be given the opportunity to return again.

Anonymous

Retain

Eindhoven is not a scrap-and-sleep city. Don't become dependent on ASML!

Anonymous

Improve

We don't want a boring city: more variety in work and shopping.