SaintEtienne – The City of Militant Design Activists Saint-Etienne is quite impressive for people interested in design! This is already apparent when one first looks at the city map, because where else is there a streetcar station named “Cité du design”? On November 22nd 2010, a couple of months before Graz, Saint-Etienne became the first French city to be designated a UNESCO City of Design. The city applied as a place of creators and inventors, which was and still is shaped by art and industry. With its 400,000 inhabitants, including the virtually incorporated surrounding towns, the metropolis of Saint-Etienne is the second largest urban center within the region composed of Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Bourgoin-Jallieu and Vienne, with their total of 2 million people. Saint-Etienne focuses on innovation, which also appears to be the lever which allows the region to have more than fifty European and world-
Metropolis of Saint-Etienne
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