Urban Development in Mumbai and its Effect on Coastal Communities

By |2024-01-04T13:45:15+01:00September 8th 2020|

Coastal regions have always had significant historical and socio-political value, making them the target of ambitious urban development plans. Amit Devale zooms in on the situation of Mumbai’s indigenous coastal tribes and their relationship with the city – and how local government plans affect their lives.

Participatory Slum Upgrading in Mumbai

By |2024-01-04T08:54:33+01:00January 23rd 2020|

India’s financial centre is one of the densest cities in the world and also home to a number of slums with urgent need for improvements. Trupti Amritwar Vaitla, CEO of the Mumbai Environmental Social Network, highlights a few of their innovative slum upgrading projects that have a participatory element at their core.

Mumbai’s Young People Stake Their Claim to Play

By |2024-01-03T17:01:57+01:00July 2nd 2019|

Mumbai, as many other Indian cities, has failed to provide its children and youth with open spaces for playing. But there is a growing movement that demands its right to play – with considerable success, as Doel Jaikishen from Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA) writes.

Young People’s Participation: Critical for Responsive City Planning

By |2024-01-02T16:05:16+01:00September 6th 2018|

In the Indian city of Mumbai, different groups participated in revising the city’s Development Plan. This article highlights the importance of the participation of young people in city planning at the neighbourhood level if planning is to respond adequately and responsibly to contemporary challenges.

Spotlight on livable cities, Part IV: Building livable cities

By |2023-12-19T14:38:57+01:00December 1st 2016|

What do cities in India need to be more livable? In the four part series "Spotlight on livable cities", ISOCARP Vice-President Shipra Narang Suri aims to answer this question by approaching it from various angles, giving examples from different areas of urban planning. In this fourth part, she explains what is concretely being done against the factors that threaten the livability of India's cities and concludes by saying that there needs to be a fundamental shift in the way planners and policy-makers approach urban development.

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