City Building and Regime Creation in the Peripheries for Mumbai
Case Study City Building and Regime Creation in the Peripheries for Mumbai People, Places and Infrastructure: Countering urban violence and promoting justice in Mumbai, Rio, and Durban Lalitha Kamath Radhika Raj Maps: Nisha Kundar Photographs: Author March 25, 2016 Centre for Urban Policy and Governance School of Habitat Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences This work was carried out with financial support from the UK Government's Department for International Development and the International Development Research Centre, Canada. The opinions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect those of DFID or IDRC. iv Acknowledgements This work has been a long engagement with several respondents from, but not limited to, Vasai Virar who have helped us decode this complex field. We greatly benefitted from our discussions with social workers, activists, musicians, politicians, researchers, students, party members, academicians, urban planners, architects, government officials and workers. We would like to acknowledge the time they spent sharing their struggles, strategies and insights on the rapidly transforming periphery. We would also like to thank government officials at the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation for their support through the project. Several people allowed us access to otherwise difficult-to-reach places and deserve special thanks. Sachin Marti gave us our first introduction to the emerging city. Ramanuj Pathak, our project fellow, opened up a whole new world through his music and performances on the urbanising periphery. Mahendra Jadhav, provided us with great support during fieldwork in an uncertain terrain. We are very grateful to them. Over the course of the project, we have had several interns and research officers who have contributed to building this study.
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