Transferable Development Rights - Question of Cities

Redevelopment
Built Environment
Urban Planning

How redevelopment ruined Mumbai’s housing and marred the landscape

Three decades after redevelopment of slums and old buildings took off in Mumbai, in the first flush of liberalisation, the percentage of people in slums is nearly twice that it was in 1991, and the old buildings and chawls have…

Redevelopment
Built Environment
Urban Planning

‘Redevelopment created houses as commodities for transaction, forgot about people’s lives and equity’

Mumbai has resembled a construction site for the past many years with redevelopment on virtually every other street. Together with large infrastructure like the coastal road and the metro network, the multitude of redeveloped high-rises across the city, on plots…