URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 200730,000 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000. Land...
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URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCENOVEMBER 2007
Charles CorreaArchitect, Charles Correa Associates
Mumbai: Which Way Forward?
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Total PopulationSquatters
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Municipal Limits
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Job Location ( =10,000 Jobs)
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Land Prices in 1996 (Rs. per sq m)
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Opening up the main land- andBombay’s Eastern waterfronts
To Pune
Possible location forNew Growth Centres
New Centre
Fort Area
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Existing North-South roads and railways
C.S.T.
Churchgate
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SewriLink
Worlinaka
HajiAli
Prabhadevi
To New Bombay
Hay Bunder
Railway Stations
Dadar a major growth point: generated by the only interchange available between the Central and Western railways
Elphinstone road and Parel Station potential growth points: generated by a new interchange integrating the two stations to one.Acharya Donde Marg: an existing east-west road, through the new interchange, through Sewri and across to New Bombay becomes a new artery.
East-West Links
Worli-Sewri Road: from Worli through Lalbaug to Sewri-Generating new growth centres.
Haji-Ali to Hay Bunder: a third East-west link from Haji Ali, through Saat Rasta to the Eastern water front.
All three East-West roads already exist and can be reinforced with Public transport The intersection of the N-S Arteries and augmented East-West roads sets up potential New Growth Centres.
Matunga
Dadar
Elphinstone
LowerParel
MahaLaxmi
BombayCentral
Grant Road
Byculla
Sandhurst Road
Chinchpokli
King-Circle
Wadala
Sewri
CottonGreen
Reay Road
Dockyard Rd
Parel
C.S.TerminusChurchgate
Nariman Point Gateway of India
Mandva
Sewri Bridge
To Konkan Coast & Goa
C.S.TerminusChurchgate
Nariman Point Gateway of India
Mandva
To Konkan Coast & Goa
To Pune
Sewri Bridge