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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"New Delhi"”.
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Urban housing for New Delhi, India
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1967. M.Arch.
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A city hall for Delhi and New Delhi (India)
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1960
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… (the BJP) and its party members in the city of New Delhi where they compete for election tickets in the municipal election of 2017. By exploring the inner political world of the party and the race for election tickets in the organisation’s complex and multi-layered hierarchy, the study tries to …
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Conflict, law and governance : the case of tenure conversion in New Delhi
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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Rethinking New Delhi : design studies on the densification of a colonial city
New Delhi, the capital of the British Raj in India, forms with the Mughal walled city of Shahjahanabad, the core of a city that has grown tenfold in the forty years since Independence, from 700,000 in 1947, to 7.5 million today. Tremendous disparities characterize this core comprising of what was …
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Discovery and optimization of inhibitors and probes that target New Delhi metallo-[beta]-lactamase
… This is particularly alarming in the case of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) which is the most widespread and clinically threatening MBL. NDM has a shallow, non-selective active site that confers resistance to multiple classes of β-lactam antibiotics including last resort carbapenems. This …
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Dominion Geometries : Colonial construction and Postcolonial persistence of the Imperial in the New Delhi Plan
New Delhi is not only the capital of India but the capital of the world's largest democracy. Conceived and built by the British, the New Delhi plan translated British India's home policy in sandstone. The government's administrative hierarchy and centralization of power was directly represented in …
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The Techno-Politics of Food Security in New Delhi: The Re-Materialization of the Ration Card
… Act (NFSA). Based on 17 months of fieldwork in Delhi, this dissertation ethnographically explores the productive tension between the ethico-political nature of the NFSA and its rather technical implementation in urban centres. I ask: How do biopolitical interventions, designed to make the state …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… identity expression inscribed between colonial New Delhi - "The King's God Child" - as the capital city of Imperial British India, and post-colonial Islamabad - "The City of Islam" - as the capital city of the nation-state the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The paper identifies a colonial legacy …
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Teacher perceptions of the influence of principal instructional leadership on school culture: a case study of the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India.
… culture in the American Embassy School (AES) in New Delhi, India. Using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, this case study addresses three key research questions. Two existing survey instruments, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale developed by Philip Hallinger (1987) and …
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New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India
… the development of three such applications in New Delhi, India, that illustrate the potential of participatory GIS production and implementation processes in strengthening communities and creating organizational change within government. However, these three projects also suggest that a …
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The use of mobile phone technology in the collection of user perceptions of walkability along pedestrian routes from public transport in Cape Town and New Delhi
… spatial analysis method in Cape Town and New Delhi. Results of pilot studies: Six public transport locations across Cape Town and New Delhi were chosen for the pilot studies. Survey facilitators, with the application preloaded on mobile phones, intercepted public transport users travelling …
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The impacts and management of outdoor-sourced PM2.5 in New Delhi's buildings : a simulation approach
New Delhi (and India more broadly) is noted for extremely high levels of ambient PM2.5, caused by a pattern of rapid urbanization and economic growth. As a large proportion of Indian buildings employ natural- or mixed-mode ventilation, and citizens in New Delhi spend up to 80% of their time …
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Digital Technology and Education in India: Unequal Access and Outcomes
… digital learning during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Delhi. Applying Bourdieu's ideas of cultural and social capital shows how socio- economic differences exacerbated already existing educational inequalities: students from better-off backgrounds were able to adapt to virtual classes easily as …
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"""Mahabharat"" on Doordarshan: The articulation of television and popular culture in India"
… umbrella of the National Network broadcast from New Delhi. This project takes a critical look at some of the significant stages of this development, concentrating on the cultural, political, and ideological aspects of the television system in India. This is done by using the methods of critical …
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Gardens of resistance
… identities. As for most capital cities such as New Delhi, alongside entrenched political regimes come the evolution of a parallel legacy of fighting against, opposing and obstructing, and resisting. Whether manifesting as the rallying cries at mass protests, as the purposeful strokes on canvas …
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EXPERIENCING THE SACRED: A phenomenological exploration of architecture as sentient space
… three notable projects – the Lotus Temple in New Delhi, the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, and the Water Temple in Awaji. In this examination, it draws attention the ways in which architecture can activate an experience of contemplation, stillness, and transcendence via sensory engagement, …
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The Principles and Reality of Bilateral Aid
… firstly, I was posted to the Danish Embassy in New Delhi during that time and had direct and detailed experience of the projects I have used as my case studies. Secondly, the period represents a time when the Danish aid agency, Danida, posted advisers who could potentially influence the …
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Why We Are Angry: Rearticulating Fisher's Narrative Paradigm with Interactivity and Hypertext
… brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh in New Delhi, India sparked international outrage leading to numerous protests. Singh’s story raised many questions regarding sexual violence and rape culture in India. We Are Angry is a digital narrative that responds to sexual assault and misogyny in …
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Minimum design standards strategies for specific urban locations with reference to India
… design standards in two specific case locations, New Delhi and Madras, in India, and to evaluate criteria used for establishing these standards. A model of selected criteria from the different frameworks was then developed as part of an overall housing strategy. An integrated concept of housing as …
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