URBAN AGE 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.

Existing North-South roads and railways 0 1 23456789km

0 1 2 3 4miles a major growth point: generated by the only interchange available between King- the Central and Western railways Circle Elphinstone road and Station Dadar potential growth points: generated by a new interchange integrating the two stations to one. Elphinstone Acharya Donde Marg: an existing east- west road, through the new interchange, through and across to New Bombay Parel becomes a new artery. Sewri Link -Sewri Road: from Worli through Sewri Worli 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 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 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

Mandva

To Konkan Coast & Goa

To Pune

Sewri Bridge

Churchgate C.S.Terminus

Nariman Point Gateway of India

Mandva

To Konkan Coast & Goa