A universalização do acesso ao conteúdo disponibilizado em sistemas Web tem se tornado crucial para que todas as pessoas, independente de deficiências ou de outras restrições possam ter acesso a ele. Diversos estudos indicam que, apesar da instituição de leis federais sobre acessibilidade para conteúdo Web em diversos países, muitos sítios ainda apresentam problemas. A falta de conscientização das pessoas envolvidas em projetos de desenvolvimento Web sobre a acessibilidade e a não utilização de técnicas adequadas para desenvolvimento de aplicações têm um impacto considerável sobre a acessibilidade. Levantamentos foram realizados com o objetivo de identificar características dos desenvolvedores sobre o conhecimento e uso de técnicas para acessibilidade. Entretanto, os estudos realizados investigaram somente o uso de um conjunto restrito de técnicas e, além disso, também não investigaram a correlação entre as respostas obtidas pelos participantes e o nível de acessibilidade das páginas desenvolvidas por eles. Neste trabalho, propõe-se efetuar um levantamento sobre a percepção de acessibilidade e uso de técnicas para desenvolvimento de sistemas Web considerando acessibilidade com pessoas envolvidas em projetos de desenvolvimento Web no Brasil de diferentes áreas de atuação. Este levantamento foi acompanhado de avaliações de acessibilidade automatizadas com uso de métricas sobre sítios desenvolvidos pelos participantes, para verificar a influência dos fatores investigados na acessibilidade dos sítios e na percepção de acessibilidade dos participantes. O levantamento realizado contou com a participação de 613 participantes de todo o Brasil. Os resultados indicaram que no Brasil a percepção da acessibilidade por pessoas que participam de projetos de desenvolvimento Web ainda é bastante limitada. Mais do que promover o treinamento das pessoas envolvidas em projetos sobre questões técnicas, é necessário promover maior conscientização sobre a acessibilidade e sobre os problemas que pessoas com diferentes restrições e habilidades enfrentam ao utilizar a Web. / Universal access to content in Web based systems is an essential aspect to enable everyone to have access to it, regardless of disabilities or any other restrictions. Several studies indicate that, although federal legislation regarding to Web accessibility have been promulgated in many countries, accessibility is still an issue for many Web sites. The limited awareness of accessibility by people involved in Web development and the lack of appropriate use of development techniques in the development of applications have a deep impact on accessibility. A few surveys have been carried out to identify the main characteristics of Web developers regarding accessibility concepts and techniques for accessibility. However, the studies reported up to this date have only investigated the use of a restricted set of techniques by developers. Besides, they have not addressed the analysis of the correlation between the answers provided by the subjects and the accessibility level of their Web pages. The proposal of the work presented in this master\'s thesis is the development of a survey on the accessibility awareness and on the use of techniques for accessibility by people involved in the development of Web based systems. Automatic metric based accessibility evaluations on the Web sites developed by the subjects were carried out to support the investigation of the impacts that the issues investigated have on the Web pages accessibility and on the accessibility awareness. The survey was answered by 613 subjects from all Brazilian states. The results show that in Brazil the accessibility awareness is still very limited. Training people involved in Web projects on technical issues alone is not enough. It is necessary to promote a wider awareness of accessibility and of the problems people with different restrictions and abilities deal with when using the Web

The study was an investigation of the effect of different developers on contrast, grain, tonal range, density and sharpness in 35mm film and their effect on contrast and density in photographic paper.It was theorized that all normal developers do not react exactly the same, Therefore, merely changing developers would cause a significant visual change in each of the above-mentioned areas.To test the hypotheses a tightly controlled experiment was conducted using eleven normal film developers and ten normal paper developers. These developers were tested on Tri-X film, and on Oriental, Polycontrast and Polycontrast RC paper.All processing steps, except the developer, for both film and paper were standardized. A still life was used as the subject for all pictures. A densitometer was used to measure the actual differences in base density, contrast range and overall density caused by changing from one developer to the next. Prints were then made using a standard exposure time determined by zone system tests, and these prints were given to three groups of coders representing experts, advanced photo students and amateurs, for visual ranking in each of the areas being tested. The rankings obtained from these three groups were then statistically checked for a significant similarity at the .05 level.For the photographic paper tests, one negative was chosen from the film tests and used for all prints. Pictures were made on each of the three papers and developed in each of the ten normal developers under strict controls. These prints were then ranked for contrast and density changes by the three groups of coders. The rankings were subjected to the same statistical tests used for the film rankings.The film rankings proved significant at the .01 level in all areas except grain. This indicates just changing developers will cause a visually significant change in contrast, density, tonal range and sharpness. The grain tests were inconclusive, but they indicated under extreme enlargement changing developer alone will not have significant effect on the actual amount of grain.The results of the film tests were charted so that the effect of each developer could be compared directly with each of the other developers.The rankings on paper developers proved to be significant at the .01 level for density and at the .05 level for contrast, indicating there is a significant visual change in both areas caused just by changing the developer. The tests also indicated the density change is controlled by the photo paper itself, while the contrast change is controlled by the developer. These results were also charted for easy comparison.The study led the researcher to accept the hypotheses stated at the beginning, with a slight modification concerning changes in the actual amount of grain.

A universalização do acesso ao conteúdo disponibilizado em sistemas Web tem se tornado crucial para que todas as pessoas, independente de deficiências ou de outras restrições possam ter acesso a ele. Diversos estudos indicam que, apesar da instituição de leis federais sobre acessibilidade para conteúdo Web em diversos países, muitos sítios ainda apresentam problemas. A falta de conscientização das pessoas envolvidas em projetos de desenvolvimento Web sobre a acessibilidade e a não utilização de técnicas adequadas para desenvolvimento de aplicações têm um impacto considerável sobre a acessibilidade. Levantamentos foram realizados com o objetivo de identificar características dos desenvolvedores sobre o conhecimento e uso de técnicas para acessibilidade. Entretanto, os estudos realizados investigaram somente o uso de um conjunto restrito de técnicas e, além disso, também não investigaram a correlação entre as respostas obtidas pelos participantes e o nível de acessibilidade das páginas desenvolvidas por eles. Neste trabalho, propõe-se efetuar um levantamento sobre a percepção de acessibilidade e uso de técnicas para desenvolvimento de sistemas Web considerando acessibilidade com pessoas envolvidas em projetos de desenvolvimento Web no Brasil de diferentes áreas de atuação. Este levantamento foi acompanhado de avaliações de acessibilidade automatizadas com uso de métricas sobre sítios desenvolvidos pelos participantes, para verificar a influência dos fatores investigados na acessibilidade dos sítios e na percepção de acessibilidade dos participantes. O levantamento realizado contou com a participação de 613 participantes de todo o Brasil. Os resultados indicaram que no Brasil a percepção da acessibilidade por pessoas que participam de projetos de desenvolvimento Web ainda é bastante limitada. Mais do que promover o treinamento das pessoas envolvidas em projetos sobre questões técnicas, é necessário promover maior conscientização sobre a acessibilidade e sobre os problemas que pessoas com diferentes restrições e habilidades enfrentam ao utilizar a Web. / Universal access to content in Web based systems is an essential aspect to enable everyone to have access to it, regardless of disabilities or any other restrictions. Several studies indicate that, although federal legislation regarding to Web accessibility have been promulgated in many countries, accessibility is still an issue for many Web sites. The limited awareness of accessibility by people involved in Web development and the lack of appropriate use of development techniques in the development of applications have a deep impact on accessibility. A few surveys have been carried out to identify the main characteristics of Web developers regarding accessibility concepts and techniques for accessibility. However, the studies reported up to this date have only investigated the use of a restricted set of techniques by developers. Besides, they have not addressed the analysis of the correlation between the answers provided by the subjects and the accessibility level of their Web pages. The proposal of the work presented in this master\'s thesis is the development of a survey on the accessibility awareness and on the use of techniques for accessibility by people involved in the development of Web based systems. Automatic metric based accessibility evaluations on the Web sites developed by the subjects were carried out to support the investigation of the impacts that the issues investigated have on the Web pages accessibility and on the accessibility awareness. The survey was answered by 613 subjects from all Brazilian states. The results show that in Brazil the accessibility awareness is still very limited. Training people involved in Web projects on technical issues alone is not enough. It is necessary to promote a wider awareness of accessibility and of the problems people with different restrictions and abilities deal with when using the Web

This study emerged from existing literary evidence that planning and building regulations affect the supply of housing and research in this area usually takes a very descriptive route that lacks an explicit theoretical framework that can guide stakeholders for better research outcomes. The rationale is based on the context that despite the many initiatives introduced by successive post-apartheid governments to improve the housing situation in South Africa, not much has been achieved to improve the enormous housing backlogs. Affordable housing, being one of the strategic mechanisms used by the government for housing delivery is laden with problems. Many factors have been attributed to the challenges among which are land use policies and building regulations, administrative bottlenecks, budgetary constraints, and so on. To effectively manage these challenges, a more proactive private sector participation has been advocated. However, this requires that proper regulatory frameworks are put in place to ensure that developers deliver housing that meets necessary safety and quality standards and still have some return on investment. Unfortunately, legislative structures which should ideally be supportive, instead, hinder development and create barriers for private developers The study thus investigates three related questions. Firstly, what are the main planning and building regulations that impact on affordable housing by the private sector? Secondly, how do the planning and building regulations affect the total cost of affordable housing development by the private sector? Thirdly, what scope exists for the change and would, relaxing these regulations, enhance the supply of affordable housing developments by the private sector in South Africa? Corresponding to these questions is the first hypothesis which states that planning and building regulations impose a significant cost on the developers and thus deter the supply by the private sector. And secondly, relaxing some of the planning and building regulations could improve affordable housing development by the private sector. The study employed a qualitative approach to gather empirical data using household surveys and semi-structured interviews from developers and consultants on five case studies together with key informants’ interviews from government officials. With the main theoretical tools of Institution Analysis and Development, this study developed a conceptual framework that determines the main planning and building regulations that impact on affordable housing supply by the private sector. And by employing insights from New Institutional Economics tools, these regulations are treated as institutions through which development rights are obtained. The study reveals; that even though planning and building regulations are affiliated with better quality housing products, they significantly affect cost, affordability and location outcomes. That no national policy tool exists to guide affordable housing implementation processes; the current city’s policy instruments are contradictory to the propagated concepts meant to enhance housing supply. The study discovers that the government has huge land parcels for different intentions, but makes it available only to a developer whose objectives align with theirs and developers lack adequate funding and incentives to motivate them. Finally, the study reveals that even when case studies are located outside the urban core of Cape Town, dwellers are happy and satisfied with the location and careless about the system’s inefficiencies and there is no direct relation between planning and building regulations and location other than the fact that regulations contribute to the bad location of developments.

The following study examines system developer's perceived advantages and disadvantages of teleworking. The aim is to gain knowledge about system developers' perceived advantages and disadvantages of teleworking, as well as the effects it can have on the individual work performance and their day to day life. In this study, teleworking is defined as following: Teleworking is when performing ordinary tasks in a place that is away from the workplace. The authors have chosen to use and to make sure that this definition corresponds with the interviewees definition of telework. The study is done using qualitative methodology, in which five selected system developers have been interviewed. The prerequisites are the following, must work as a system developer and some experience with telecommuting. All participants fulfilled the prerequisites that were initially set for participation in the study. The data from the interviews have been collected and analyzed with thematic analysis. After the interviews, several advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting were identified. In summary, the study has shown that participants feel that there are more disadvantages to teleworking than working at their offices. At the same time, the study has also been able to show that there are great benefits for the participants in being able to work remotely.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IdelmarciaDO.pdf: 781272 bytes, checksum: fb2e5ba3247ab47eff60bb3c30b07e21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-19 / The spread of the Web boosted the dissemination of Information Systems (IS) based on the Web. In order to support the implementation of these systems, several technologies came up or evolved with this purpose, namely the programming languages. The Technology Acceptance Model TAM (Davis, 1986) was conceived aiming to evaluate the acceptance/use of information technologies by their users. A lot of studies and many applications have used the TAM, however, in the literature it was not found a mention of the use of such model related to the use of programming languages. This study aims to investigate which factors influence the use of programming languages on the development of Web systems by their developers, applying an extension of the TAM, proposed in this work. To do so, a research was done with Web developers in two Yahoo groups: java-br and python-brasil, where 26 Java questionnaires and 39 Python questionnaires were fully answered. The questionnaire had general questions and questions which measured intrinsic and extrinsic factors of the programming languages, the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease of use, the attitude toward the using and the programming language use. Most of the respondents were men, graduate, between 20 and 30 years old, working in the southeast and south regions. The research was descriptive in the sense of its objectives. Statistical tools, descriptive statistics, main components and linear regression analysis were used for the data analysis. The foremost research results were: Java and Python have machine independence, extensibility, generality and reliability; Java and Python are more used by corporations and international organizations than supported by the government or educational institutions; there are more Java programmers than Python programmers; the perceived usefulness is influenced by the perceived ease of use; the generality and the extensibility are intrinsic factors of programming languages which influence the perceived ease of use; the perceived ease of use influences the attitude toward the using of the programming language / A difus?o da Web impulsionou a dissemina??o de Sistemas de Informa??o (SI) baseados na Web. Para apoiar a implementa??o desses sistemas, diversas tecnologias surgiram ou evolu?ram com este prop?sito, dentre elas as linguagens de programa??o. O Modelo de Aceita??o de Tecnologia - TAM (Davis, 1986) foi concebido com o intuito de avaliar a aceita??o/uso de tecnologias da informa??o por seus usu?rios. V?rios estudos e aplica??es diversas t?m utilizado o TAM, no entanto, n?o foi encontrada na literatura men??o a utiliza??o de tal modelo com rela??o ao uso de linguagens de programa??o. Este estudo objetiva investigar que fatores influenciam o uso de linguagens de programa??o utilizadas no desenvolvimento de sistemas Web por parte de seus desenvolvedores, utilizando uma extens?o do TAM, proposta neste estudo. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa com desenvolvedores Web pertencentes a dois grupos do Yahoo: java-br e python-brasil, no qual foram respondidos, na ?ntegra, 26 question?rios Java e 39 Python. O question?rio tinha quest?es de car?ter geral e quest?es que mediam os fatores intr?nsecos e extr?nsecos das linguagens de programa??o, a utilidade percebida, a facilidade de uso percebida, a atitude sobre o uso e o uso da linguagem de programa??o. A maioria dos respondentes eram homens, com n?vel superior, idade entre 20 e 30 anos, atuando nas regi?es sudeste e sul. Do ponto de vista de seus objetivos, a pesquisa foi descritiva. Em rela??o ? forma de abordagem, quantitativa. Para a an?lise de dados foram utilizadas ferramentas estat?sticas, estat?stica descritiva, componentes principais e an?lise de regress?o linear m?ltipla. Os principais resultados da pesquisa foram: Java e Python possuem independ?ncia de m?quina, extensibilidade, generalidade e confian?a; Java e Python s?o mais utilizadas por corpora??es e organiza??es internacionais do que apoiadas pelo governo ou institui??es de ensino; h? mais programadores Java do que Python; a utilidade percebida ? influenciada pela facilidade de uso percebida; a generalidade e a extensibilidade s?o fatores intr?nsecos as linguagens de programa??o que influenciam a facilidade de uso percebida; a facilidade de uso percebida influencia a atitude em rela??o ao uso da linguagem de programa??o

This report is focused on a research to find out if the Customer Relation Management (CRM) of Quicknet AB works and if their customers are satisfied with it. During this investigation I tried to see if the customers had a need for taking the CRM and use a tool called Social CRM. The report will conclude if the clients of Quicknet think that there is something that can be done in the relation between both parts and how it can be improved. At the same time I am going to build an application which relates to the problems of this report. To solve the problem I am going to do a survey which will include the CRM and also try to find out if the customers of Quicknet share the same thoughts about having a Social Customer Relation Management. Also if this survey shows what the customers think about the CRM, it could improve the relation between Quicknet and themselves.  The result from the survey showed two things. Firstly it showed that the customers had a need for manuals available when the customers can't reach the support. Also, outcomes from the survey proved that having applications for competitions or gaming would be of interest for the customers. These two answers had the most votes and are the alternatives that can help Quicknet to increase the quality of their relation with their customers. The application wasn't completed in time and there were two reasons behind that. Firstly, my own knowledge about writing PHP was not as good as I thought and secondly I experienced some technical problems with the API of Facebook. From this project I'm taking with me experience of planning the time better, to make sure to make it as effective as possible. Also, I'm now having more knowledge about PHP and MYSQL and at the same time has an interest for web development started to grow. / Denna rapport fokuserar på att finna vilken Customer Relation Management modell som Quicknet AB använder sig av och om deras kunder är nöjda med den. Vid undersökningen ska jag också se om kunderna anser att det finns ett behov av att den nuvarande CRM och applicera ett verktyg som heter Social CRM. Rapporten kommer ta fram om Quicknets kunder tycker att det finns något som kan förstärka relationen mellan bägge parterna och hur den kan förbättras. Samtidigt kommer jag att bygga en applikation som relaterar till rapportens problem För att lösa problemet kommer jag att göra en enkätundersökning som kommer att inkludera CRM och försöka att ta reda på om kunderna delar varandras åsikter om att ha ett Social Customer Relation Management. Om den här enkäten visar vad kunderna tycker om det nuvarande CRMramverket som används, kan det användas till att förbättra relationen mellan Quicknet och dem själva. Resultatet från enkäten visade två saker. Först så visade den att kunderna har ett behov av att ha manualer tillgängliga när kunden inte kan få support. Vidare så visar också enkäten att ha en applikation för tävlingar eller liknande områden är av intresse hos kunderna. Dessa två alternativ är de som kan hjälpa Quicknet att stärka kvalitén i relation med deras kunder. Applikationen blev inte klar i tid och det finns två bakomliggande anledningar till det. Den första är mina egna kunskaper om PHP var bristfälliga och för det andra så upplevde jag tekniska problem med Facebooks API. Från projektet tar jag med mig erfarenheter från att planera tiden på ett annat sätt. Detta för att kunna effektivisera arbetet i framtiden. Jag anser mig också ha fått mer kunskap inom PHP och MYSQL, där jag även har fått ett intresse av att hålla på med webbutveckling.

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Through mixed-methods research, this dissertation details the regionally variegated and place-specific software production processes in three second-tier US software regions. I focus on the relationship between different industrial, firm, and worker production configurations and broad-based economic development, prosperity, and inequality. I develop four main empirical findings. First, I argue for a periodization of software production that tracks with changes in software laboring activity, software technologies, and wage-employment relationships. Through a GIS-based method, I use the IPUMS-USA to extensively measure the amount and type of software labor in industries across the US between 1970 and 2015. I map the uneven geography of software labor that produces different clusters of various software occupations. Second, I argue that between each software period, locational windows provide an opportunity for second-tier software regions to challenge Silicon Valley. I combine the IPUMS-USA dataset with interviews of software workers to analyze forms of regionally specific modes of production in Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and Austin, Texas. I trace how software production in these three cities evolves between each software period, taking on different spatial configurations, firm strategies, labor practices, and technological characteristics. Third, I argue that software labor is hyper-sensitive to deskilling because of software production activity produces software. I combine occupation classifications and interviews with software workers to interrogate the ever-present need for software workers to learn the newest development practices and software languages as firms seek to automate software production. I define five key moments since the 1970s that exemplify software labor market dualization and segmentation. Using interviews, and conference observations, I find that community-based organizations and labor market intermediaries locally mitigate the structural tendencies toward labor market dualization and segmentation. I argue that without intervention, the layered and bifurcated labor market for software production reproduces existing inequalities. Further, the organizational, technological, and spatial changes in software production reduce the potential for equitable wealth production. Ultimately, this dissertation argues for the importance of labor organizing in software, contributing empirical and theoretical work in a lineage of regional-based industrial restructuring literature. The regional and industrial geographies produced by and out of software production are significant forces in the economy at regional and national scales. I connect this process to the feminization of other industries, noting how the technical nature of software production structurally genders and racializes the labor force. Leveraging a labor feminization framework highlights the flexibilization of labor and the rift between the pace of software skill building and technological development. Both software production and regional economies are necessary entry points to understand new capitalist relations. Understanding these new relations thus requires examining how configurations of software production differ across regions, how they impact industry and regional economic development outcomes, and how they weaken or strengthen actions of local workers, local organizations, and local firms. These processes offer a glimpse into how the contemporary moment of production differs from other moments of production. Armed with this understanding, this research will be able to connect industry and regional economic-development outcomes to regionally specific modes of production, answering relevant software-based economic-development policy questions.

La thèse s'intéresse à la place encore méconnue des promoteurs immobiliers privés dans la fabrication des espaces urbains en Inde, en prenant pour terrain de recherche les régions métropolitaines de Bangalore et Chennai. L’enjeu de cette recherche doctorale est d’observer et d’expliquer comment des promoteurs immobiliers contribuent à la transformation de l’organisation spatiale des villes et de leurs paysages, mais également de la manière de les représenter et de les concevoir ainsi que de les aménager et de gouverner leur développement. En sondant ces dimensions matérielles, symboliques et politiques, nous explorons les mécanismes qui aident à comprendre l'essor plus rapide de certains promoteurs à un moment récent de l'histoire urbaine. Ceci nécessite alors de prendre en compte les spécificités de l’activité de promotion en scrutant les modalités par lesquelles les entreprises accèdent aux ressources qui leur sont nécessaires (le foncier, les capitaux et le pouvoir réglementaire) tout en prenant soin de les historiciser. Dans le contexte de l'Inde libéralisée, nous remarquons que l'essor des entreprises de promotion immobilière tient à trois aspects conjugués : 1) une demande importante en nouvelles constructions qui reflète la consommation immobilière d’entreprises recherchant des locaux modernes pour héberger leurs salariés et d’une classe moyenne supérieure croissante; 2) un environnement socio-règlementaire assoupli sur tous les aspects importants pour l’activité de promotion immobilière, et en particulier les modalités d'accès aux matériaux de construction et à la main-d’œuvre, mais également au foncier urbain et aux capitaux pour préfinancer les opérations de promotion ; 3) enfin, la disponibilité de ces capitaux à partir de diverses sources (marchés financiers, banques commerciales, investisseurs particuliers). Ainsi, au milieu des années 2000, certains promoteurs sont parvenus à se développer très rapidement, tout en parvenant à conserver une autonomie forte vis-à-vis des investisseurs qui sous-tendent leur essor. Cette autonomie relative des promoteurs, doublée de la puissance de feu apportée par les marchés financiers leur a permis de mettre en œuvre une stratégie de conquête de marchés immobiliers à la fois dans leurs espaces d’origine et par l'implantation dans d'autres villes d’Inde du sud. Ils ont ainsi pu accroître leur volume de production, multipliant des projets caractérisés par leur taille croissante. Les promoteurs immobiliers étudiés se trouvent en position de force pour énoncer des visions sur le développement urbain, la gouvernance des métropoles et pour société urbaine indienne. Ces visions retrouvent celles proposées par d'autres grands entrepreneurs indiens et des cabinets d'audit internationaux : la ville indienne doit être transformée afin de répondre à un idéal de ville de classe mondiale, caractérisée notamment par des infrastructures et services urbains efficients. Les promoteurs disqualifient les acteurs publics en raison de leur incompétence et de leur recours à des pratiques de rémunération frauduleuse. A contrario, les promoteurs se targuent de produire des formes urbaines répondant à cet idéal de ville de classe mondiale, d’apporter des services efficaces au sein de leurs complexes immobiliers, de démontrer leur probité et leur intégrité professionnelles notamment en répondant aux exigences de transparence en matière de communication financière et de bonne gouvernance, et plus généralement d’œuvrer au bien commun par la production de logements et d’immeubles de bureaux adapté à la modernisation économique de l’Inde. Discours d’auto légitimation qui les incitent à rêver tout haut de se substituer aux autorités publiques en charge de l'aménagement des métropoles, ou du moins, à assumer une responsabilité plus importante encore dans leur transformation / The thesis focuses on the little-known role of private developers in making of urban spaces in India, in the metropolitan regions of Bangalore and Chennai. The aim of this doctoral research is to observe and explain how developers contribute to the transformation of the spatial organization of cities and their landscape, but also the way of representing and designing as well as develop and govern the development. By probing the physical, symbolic and political, we explore the mechanisms that help explain the more rapid growth of some promoters to a recent moment in urban history. This then needs to take into account the promotion of the activity of specific scrutinizing the ways in which businesses access to the resources they need (land, capital and regulatory power) while taking care of the historicizing. In the context of liberalized India, we note that the growth of real estate development companies due to three aspects combined: 1) a significant demand for new construction that reflects the real estate consumer companies seeking modern premises to house their employees and a growing upper middle class; 2) a socio-relaxed regulatory environment on all important aspects of the property development business, and in particular the arrangements for access to building materials and labor, but also to urban land and capital to pre-finance development operations; 3) finally, the availability of capital from various sources (financial markets, commercial banks, private investors). In the mid 2000s, some developers have managed to develop very rapidly, while managing to maintain a strong autonomy vis-à-vis investors that underpin their development. This relative autonomy of developers, coupled with the firepower provided by the financial markets allowed them to implement a strategy to conquer real estate markets in both their original spaces and by implanting in other cities of south India. They were able to increase their production volume, multiplying projects characterized by their increasing size. Real estate developers surveyed are in strong position to articulate visions on urban development, the governance of cities and urban Indian society. These views reflected those proposed by other leading Indian business leaders and international audit firms: the Indian city should be transformed to meet a world-class city ideal, characterized by efficient urban infrastructure and services. Proponents disqualify public players because of their incompetence and their use of fraudulent compensation practices. Conversely, proponents boast of producing urban forms responding to this world-class city ideal, provide effective services in their housing complexes, demonstrate probity and professional integrity including meeting the requirements of transparency in financial communication and good governance, and more generally to work for the common good through the production of housing and office buildings adapted to the economic modernization of India. These self-legitimation discourse encourage them to dream aloud to replace public authorities in charge of the development of cities, or at least to assume even greater responsibility in their transformation