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1: A view on Hudson Circle, central Bangalore. Despite a population that exceeds five million and a building boom, Bangalore tries to sustain its traditional image as a 'green city' marked by large parks.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
2: Mahatma Gandhi (M.G.) Road, central Bangalore. The old colonial houses along this major alley of the former British cantonment area get increasingly replaced by new buildings, which indicates the attractiveness of this part of the town for the settlement of modern, sophisticated service industries.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
3: Near the city market, central Bangalore. Traffic congestions and heavy pollution are the price that Bangalore pays for not sufficiently adjusting infrastructure development to the growth of firms and employment due to the information technology boom.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
4: Plan of the 'Electronics City' industrial area (phase 1) in Bangalore, approximately 20 km south of the city centre. Within the framework of innerregional decentralisation policies, planning efforts are made to direct industries to the periphery of town.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
5: New site of a foreign multinational company in information technology in Bangalore's 'Electronics City'. The spatially dispersed industrial growth of the city increases problems of transport and socio-economic disparities.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
6: Headquarters of a large Indian software multinational in 'Electronics City'. Many of Bangalore's modern firms represent self-sufficient entities that care for their own supplies in electricity as well as communication and transport needs - 'cathedrals in the desert'.
© G. Eisebith, 1997 [back to picture]
7: Vidhana Soudha, a massive granite building constructed in neo-Dravidian-style was built in 1954 and houses both the secretariat and the Karnataka state legislature.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
8: A charming bungalow from the early 1900s; many of these colonial-style buildings are being pulled down and replaced by multi-storey apartment-complexes.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
9: The Mahatma Gandhi Road (M.G. Road), the heart of the modern city.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
10: The high rise office blocks of the International Technology Park, located in the suburb of Whitefields, a 200 million US-Dollar collaboration between a Singapore consortium and the state governments of Karnataka.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
11: Low-cost housing estate for the urban lower middle classes.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
12: In Bangalore, more than 800 slums give shelter to approximately 1.5 mio. people.
© C. Dittrich, 2001 [back to picture]
