Rethinking Mumbai’s Construction & Redevelopment: A Call For Systemic Urban Design
Roads have been dug up, dust is in the air, and rehabilitation projects are all around Mumbai, which now looks like a continuous construction zone. A developing city needs infrastructure and building upgrades, but the haphazard way these projects are carried out raises fundamental questions about long-term sustainability, efficiency, and planning. Even beyond the major […]
Redevelopment of 388 historic MHADA buildings is still stuck in a dead end
Up to 27,373 unit owners are still waiting with no end in sight, ten months after it seemed that an impasse in the redevelopment of 388 old and dilapidated buildings belonging to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) had been broken. The Maharashtra government released a notification in November of last year to […]
Deadlock in redevelopment of 388 old MHADA buildings ends
The deadlock in the redevelopment of 388 dilapidated MHADA buildings in Mumbai ended on Friday after the government decided to allow builders incentive FSI by adopting a new formula and working it into the Development Control Rules (DCR) as DCR 33 (24). While this has paved the way for flat owners to get bigger houses […]
Mumbai Trans Harbour Link to open in few months; will change infra and real estate of Navi Mumbai: Eknath Shinde
The much-awaited Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) connecting Mumbai and Navi Mumbai will be opened for general traffic in the coming few months followed by the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) which is expected to bring drastic change in the way Navi Mumbai is looked at, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on August 10. […]