URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 2007
Charles Correa Architect, Charles Correa Associates
Mumbai: Which Way Forward?
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18 60% 16 16
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Total Population 10 9 Squatters 50%
Millions 8 8
6 10% 4 4 4 2 2 0.4 0 1940 1964 1985 2007 Year 1965 1957
1950
Original Bombay Limits
Municipal Limits Job Location ( =10,000 Jobs) 30,000
50,000 30,000 100,000
150,000
100,000 200,000
250,000
300,000
Land Prices in 1996 (Rs. per sq m)
Possible location for New Growth Centres
New Centre
Fort Area To Pune
Opening up the main land- and Bombay’s Eastern waterfronts
C.S.T. Churchgate
Existing North-South roads and railways 0 1 23456789km
0 1 2 3 4miles Dadar a major growth point: generated by Matunga the only interchange available between King- the Central and Western railways Circle Prabhadevi Elphinstone road and Parel Station Dadar potential growth points: generated by a new interchange integrating the two Wadala stations to one. Elphinstone Acharya Donde Marg: an existing east- west road, through the new interchange, through Sewri and across to New Bombay Parel becomes a new artery. Sewri Link Worli-Sewri Road: from Worli through Sewri Worli Lalbaug to Sewri-Generating new growth naka To New centres. Lower Bombay Haji-Ali to Hay Bunder: a third East-west Parel link from Haji Ali, through Saat Rasta to Chinchpokli the Eastern water front. Cotton MahaLaxmi Green All three East-West roads already exist Haji and can be reinforced with Public Ali transport The intersection of the N-S Dockyard Rd Arteries and augmented East-West roads Byculla Hay Bunder sets up potential New Growth Centres. Bombay Central Railway Stations Reay Road East-West Links Grant Road Sandhurst Road 0 1 2 km
0 1 mile Sewri Bridge
Churchgate C.S.Terminus
Nariman Point Gateway of India
Mandva
To Konkan Coast & Goa
To Pune
Sewri Bridge
Churchgate C.S.Terminus
Nariman Point Gateway of India
Mandva
To Konkan Coast & Goa