J. Cuijpers, J. de Jong.

Drenthe in Brabant. Ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van het Drents Dorp in Eindhoven.

Historisch Geografisch Tijdschrift 24 (2006) 15 - 23.

In de jaren 1920 werd op de Strijpse Heide in opdracht van de woningbouwstichting Thuis Best aangevangen met de bouw van de wijk Drents Dorp. De wijk, bedoeld voor de huisvesting van arbeiders voor het snel expanderende Philips, toont hoe in genoemde periode in architectuur en stedenbouw geëxperimenteerd werd met vernieuwende ontwerpprincipes. Het Drents Dorp vormt een redelijk zeldzaam voorbeeld van de overgangsperiode van een esthetisch georiënteerde stedenbouw naar een modernistische stedenbouw.

Drenthe in Brabant. The foundation and development of the company town 'Drents Dorp' in Eindhoven (province of North-Brabant)

The Philips company built Drents Dorp in the 1920's. Its name refers to the fact that a substantial part of the workforce that settled in this tiny company town originated from Drenthe, one of the northern provinces of the Netherlands. Today, the built environment of Drents Dorp, that formed a part of the municipality of Eindhoven right from its beginning, still reflects the change in concepts in spatial planning that evolved in the late 1920's. By that time urban planning, urban design and architecture in the Netherlands, in which an esthetical approach traditionally played an important role, began to conceive the city as an organism that could be organized. In Drents Dorp one can see traces of both the former approach - ornamented brick buildings, monumental lanes and squares - and the more functional approach - represented by a rational plan based on local traffic needs. Drents Dorp is a rare example of a neighbourhood that demonstrates the gradual transformation that occurred in Dutch town planning in the 1920's.


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