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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Bangalore"”.
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Bangalore-Future Trends In Public Open Space Usage. Case Study: Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore
… 'Silicon Valley' or 'Garbage City', the city of Bangalore has come a long way. One of the interesting aspects of life in Bangalore is 'public life' and the use of public space. However the quality of public spaces in Bangalore has deteriorated over the years due to several reasons. Rapid …
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Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?
… regulation is justified in the case of Bangalore, India where water issues have become increasingly pressing and informal water vendors, also known as the "water mafia," have grown in number and in influence. In particular, this thesis will explore whether private tankers display any …
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Community-led participatory budgeting in Bangalore : learning from successful cases
… India is rapidly growing, and in cities like Bangalore, the dramatic changes have both positive and negative impacts. Citizens express concern about the capacity and credibility of local government and corporate sector in leading local development. In contrast to rural India where the 73rd …
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Designing Indian streets as social public spaces : contextual design and planning in Bangalore
… where one has daily social encounters. Using Bangalore as a case study, this thesis analyzes spatial and social forces that shape street experience and culture at the scale of the city, the locality, and the street itself. By performing a reconnaissance study and an analysis of the street …
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Information technology governance and local public financial management reform : the case of Bangalore, India
… between these policy concerns in the case of Bangalore and looks deeply into the role of information technology providers in advocating for greater local government financial transparency and accountability through financial management information system projects. Utilizing the concept of …
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Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster
… common empirical setting is the IT cluster in Bangalore, for its distinguished features as a high-tech cluster and for its steady yearly two-digit growth around the service-based business model. The first paper deploys both a firm-level and a tie-level analysis, exploring the cases of 4 …
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Violations of land use and building regulations: evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India
… the study uses a residential neighborhood in Bangalore, India. The case study analyzes six different building and land use requirements that are applicable to all the neighborhood plots. The research examined whether the pattern of violations observed was consistent with the theoretical …
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Watering the slums : how a utility and its street-level bureaucrats connected the poor in Bangalore
… workers. To do this, I examine the case of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) and its contrasting outcomes within the same case. Over a five year period from 2000 to 2005, the utility revised its operational policies to accommodate the legal and financial realities of slums …
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Association of Basic Maternal Factors and Maternal Autonomy with Malnourishment among Children 6-36 Months Old in an Urban Slum in Bangalore, India
Pages ii-iv are incorreclty numbered as pages iii-v.
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The influence of the childhood experiences of women in Bangalore, India, upon their aspirations for their children: socio-cultural and academic perspectives. A community-based study
Over the past few years there have been significant advances in the participation of women in the economic and public domain, closing of gender gaps in primary and secondary education and in many countries, lower incidences of violence against women (Segran, 2010). However, these achievements have …
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An investigation into the nature of and extent to which methods taught during Montessori teacher training in Bangalore are applied by teachers in Montessori and mainstream schools
… 1939 to 1948. The Indian Montessori Centre in Bangalore, India, has played a pivotal role in preserving this teaching history through its renowned Indian Montessori training courses. These courses provide extensive training to individuals aspiring to become Montessori teachers, initiating a …
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Cultivating a New Transnational Elite: Parenting, Schooling, and Belonging in the Age of Global It
… alumni of local high schools who live in Bangalore, a city in South India known as 'Silicon Valley.' In doing so, I describe how the global IT industry affects the lives of a segment of the transnational elite.</p><p>Further, I show how the availability of 'good' schools enables parents to …
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Essays on the economics of urban transportation
… experiment and GPS-based data collection in Bangalore, India. Commuters value time spent commuting highly and are moderately flexible to change departure time. However, welfare gains from optimal congestion pricing are predicted to be low, due primarily to a small road traffic externality. …
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Exploration of the unique firm resources described by Indian apparel export firms for their competitive advantages
… in the apparel export industry in Tirupur and Bangalore revealed four competitive advantages: (a) product advantage; (b) price advantage; (c) delivery advantage and; (c) service advantage. Implications derived from the results offer several important opportunities. Through an in-depth …
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Participatory media and collaborative facilitation : developing tools for aligning values to practice in organizations
… relies on two core cases in Lawrence, MA and Bangalore, India, focusing on critical moments on a narrative timeline and analysis of like patterns of action.
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Children's participation in local government: The Makkala Panchayats of Kundapur, southern India.
… State. The initiative is the innovation of Bangalore-based NGO, The Concerned for Working Children (“CWC”). Through a methodology informed by grounded theory, ethnography and the sociology of childhood, I report the opinions of the children elected to the makkala panchayats, how the makkala …
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Seeds of truth : J. Krishnamurti as religious teacher and educator
… by Krishnamurti. The first, Valley School near Bangalore, South India is a school for six to eighteen year olds. Educational innovations and efforts to encourage a sense of inquiry among its pupils are described and there are reports of interviews with staff and pupils. The other school, …
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… law in recent years). Based on my fieldwork in Bangalore, I study hijra suicides to demonstrate that these experiences exist at the edges of both public health programs and rights/legal discourses. In existing at the fringes of all current forms of governmentality, I demonstrate that hijras …
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Land-incentivized joint ventures for infrastructure development in India
… to be. I then briefly examine the case of the Bangalore International Airport that was built in 2008 under a land-incentivized joint venture. As I am constrained by my lack of in-depth information on many aspects of the case, I use the case merely as a tool to illustrate how a number of the …
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Venture investing and city development : a look at Singapore
… framework. After this, we look at Bangalore and Glasgow, 2 striking examples of cities that reinvented themselves. We then try to develop a conceptual way to look at how cities will try to promote growth in the future. With these frameworks in mind, we analyze the situation in the …
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