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Yverdon-les-Bains

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Yverdon-les-Bains (ēvĕrdôN`-lā-bĕN`), Ger. Iferten, town (1990 pop. 22,758), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the south end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. It is an old spa with Roman ruins. Machinery, precision instruments, and tobacco products are manufactured in the town. Heinrich Pestalozzi Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (yō`hän hīn`rĭkh pĕs'tälôt`sē)
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 held (1805–25) his experimental classes in the town's 13th-century castle.


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In fact, creating such a system proved quite difficult, says Crevoisier, an artist and engineer at the University of Applied Sciences Vaud in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
The pulsating Cloud structure at Yverdon-les-Bains (designed for the recent Swiss Expo, AR September 2002) was not only technically highly sophisticated, but a provocative commentary on the vapid culture of architecture as spectacle.
There will be "Arteplages" (art beaches) at four locations on the lakes - Biel, Murten, Neuchatel, and Yverdon-les-Bains, while a fifth "Arteplage," in the Canton Jura, will be mobile.
 
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