Mumbai’s ‘Redevelopment’ Rush: At What Cost?

Published By: eSS, Mumbai, India | Published Date: June, 16 , 2011

In the current mad rush to turn Mumbai into a New York or a Shanghai, it is the dispossessed who will pay the price for this transformation. The recent protests and agitation around the issue of the Golibar redevelopment in western Mumbai is yet another illustration of this.

Author(s): Collin Furtado | Posted on: Jun 16, 2011 | Views(1114) | Download (886)
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Very thoughtful and eloquent piece - nicely brings out the cost of displacement for urban slum dwellers whom we don't think about when we talk about 'displacement and rehabilitation'.
by dhanwanti nayak, on Jun 24, 2011

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