CONTENTS
1.The Impatience of Genius 13
Gautam Patel
2. Mumbai in the Dock 27
Darryl D'monte
3.Life, Death, and Displacement on Mumbai's Docks 33
PUKAR
4. A Peek at Government Plan to redevelop Mumbai's 1,800-acre Docklands 41
Smruti Koppikar
5. As Government decides future of Mumbai and its Docklands, citizen voices go unheard 45
Smruti Koppikar
6. Mumbai Port Waterfront & Port Land Development Report 51
Prepared by Mumbai Port 051 Trust Land Development Committee
7.L etter on Coastal Road 73
UDRI
8. That Sinking Feeling 85
Nidhi Jamwal
9. A tale of two cities : The similar story of Mumbai & Chennai
Floods 101
Shalini Nair
10.Chennai floods a grim reminder of what fate awaits Mumbai
Soon, new construction rules for flood-free Mumbai 109
Clara Lewis
11. Soon, new construction rules for flood free Mumbai 113
Shailesh Gaikwad
12. Urban Rivers as ecological corridors in the city : Case of Mumbai city
GRASSROOTS-Pallavi Latkar, Shruti Barve, Sagarika Damle, Nishith Dharaiya
13.Material visions - Mumbai Development Plan 2034 and The Unfolding City
Vyjayanthi VenuturupalliRao 139
14.Fixing Mumbai: Beyond the DP / Sense and the City 151
Shirish Patel & UDRI Team
15.Smart Cities and the way we treat the poor 171
Vidyadhar Date 171
16. Of no fixed address: Mumbai's street-dwellers are neither beggars nor destitute 185
Kavitha Iyer
17. No place for the poor 193
Shanoor Seervai
18. ab,c Draft Housing Policy-1,2,3 199
Chandrashekar Prabhu
19. No takers for over 1.5 lakh houses in Mumbai 221
Sudhir Suryawanshi
20. 'AchheDin’ for builders of luxury towers in Mumbai 225
Nauzer Bharucha
21.Now, SRA moots FSI bonanza for city builders 239
Nauzer Bharucha
22.Right to Housing 247
Shailesh Gandhi
23. Changes in slum population and living conditions of slum dwellers in Mumbai
Vidya Yadav, R.B.Bhagat 265
24 Water PIL
Petition by Pani Haq Samiti&Ors 281
25. What I did with my 0.99 sq.m of Mumbai 299
Alison Saldanha
26.Breathless in Mumbai 313
Anjali Lukose
27.Kemp's Corner flyover at 337
Shirish B. Patel
28.Mumbai's Underworld: Urban life beneath transport infrastructure 345
Andrew Harris
29. A city built of Data and the Networked Metropolis 367
Keya Kunte
30. Killing us softly? 377
Shyama Kulkarni
31. One Last Swirl 393
Kunal Purohit
32.Public Education in Mumbai 407
Simantini Dhuru
33. The State of Architecture : Practices and Processes in India
Rahul Mehrotra 423
34 UDRI Section 447