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Category Archives: Mumbai
Taming street-people: India’s grand civilizational project
A status message by a friend on Facebook has had me thinking for many weeks now. He wrote: Ranchi is an amazing city. In my first 30 minutes there, two schoolchildren, one bike rider and a goat tried to kill … Continue reading
Governmental “informality” in India
I referred, last week, to this paper by Ananya Roy which argues that informality and the collapse of rule of law in India is not a result of the disdain that ungovernable masses have for law, but a result of … Continue reading
Posted in commonwealth games, Delhi, Informality, Mumbai, Yamuna Floodplain
Tagged Adarsh housing society, Akrama Sakrama, MMRDA
5 Comments
Ringroading and Mumbai’s spatial structure
Mumbai is currently undergoing historic but unnoticed changes that might possibly alter its urban structure beyond anyone’s imagination. It’s monocentric structure that aligned the entire city towards the downtown in South Bombay is likely to change very soon. Indeed, this … Continue reading
Posted in Airport, Highways, Land-use Planning, Metropolitan Government, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, New Towns, Suburbs, Transportation Planning
Tagged CIDCO, MMRDA
3 Comments
Transit as a social space
In a previous post, I had argued that air-conditioning transit is a wasteful and avoidable expenditure that adds little to the comfort of the commuter, and that city planners should instead seek to reduce crowding in transit by increasing the … Continue reading
Posted in Mumbai, Needs of the poor, social spaces, Suburban Rail
Tagged Maximum City, Mumbai local, Raj Rao, Suketu Mehta
5 Comments
Metros and social justice: the case of Mumbai
Amitabh Bachchan, the famous Bollywood actor, recently stirred up a controversy when he complained in his blog about the intrusion of his privacy due to the construction of the Mumbai Metro near his mansion “Prateeksha” in Juhu. The city responded … Continue reading
Posted in Equity in Planning, Metro, Mumbai, Rehabilitation
Tagged MMRDA, Mumbai Metro, Race Course
2 Comments
Vendors are the security, can’t you see?
Street vendors and homeless persons should be welcome on streets – between the two groups, they occupy the streets at all times of the day and night, providing stray walkers at night the security of not having to worry about being the only person on the street. And yet, we find that governments respond to their presence in exactly the opposite manner – Mumbai wants to get security to keep people from “encroaching” the elevated walkways when they could have gotten these “encroachers” to themselves serve as security – at so much less expense and freeing up so much time of the already overworked Mumbai Police. Continue reading
Posted in Bangalore, homeless persons, Mumbai, Needs of the poor, Pedestrian Needs, security, Skywalk, Street Vendors
Tagged eyes on the street, hawkers, Jane Jacobs
4 Comments
Promises, promises…
My analysis of two news reports in Mumbai this week promising drivers of personal vehicles the opportunity to “zip over” congested roads. Continue reading
Posted in commonwealth games, Delhi, Highways, Induced Demand, Mumbai
Tagged Chembur, Colaba, Commonwealth Games, MMRDA, Times of India
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So much for transparency…
In Delhi, after the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) reported scams worth 20 crore rupees in construction projects for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, the Delhi Chief Minister has passed a “gag order” on her colleagues in the cabinet to keep the … Continue reading
