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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Mumbai"”.
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Revitalizing Daily Travel - Mumbai, India
… their future consequences. Having lived in Mumbai, I have seen it grow into a megacity. The countless problems that urbanism has brought to accommodate the massive amount of people migrating into the city has affected the quality of life of people immensely. However, is it for the better or …
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Shanghaization of Mumbai: visions, displacements, contestations
… involved in making growth inclusive. Taking Mumbai—India’s “global city”—as a case, this dissertation explores competing claims of urban development among diverse stakeholders in the city (including planners, business associations, civic organizations, activists, and poor peoples’ movements) …
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The Urban Social Patterns of Navi Mumbai, India
… emerging trends in urban social patterns in Navi Mumbai, India. Unlike the other planned cities of India, Navi Mumbai was specifically built as a planned decentralization of a large metropolitan city. The research focuses on explaining the urban social pattern of this particular case study. An …
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Introducing Mangrove Mitigation to the Urban Development in Mumbai
Mumbai is the economic capital and the most densely urbanized coastal city of India. Environmental strain caused by rapid development of the city is studied with focus on one aspect of Mumbai's environment, the mangrove ecology, which has been threatened by urbanization ever since the city began to …
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Material worlds : [de]constructing the ethos of concrete in Mumbai
… largest megacities Sao Paulo, Cairo, Karachi and Mumbai, to name a few. The predominant building form concrete takes in these cities, is of the concrete frame. This dissertation traces the emergence of the concrete frame as the preferred form taken by reinforced concrete in widespread urban …
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Novel Infrastructures: Urban Literary Forms in Contemporary Lagos, Johannesburg, and Mumbai
… developing postcolonial cities like Lagos, Mumbai, and Johannesburg from the last decade of the 20th century to the present, a period of hyper-accelerated infrastructural and ideological reconstruction after the formal end of colonialism. I argue that the representation of urban …
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Governing urban land : the political economy of the ULCRA in Mumbai
… Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act (ULCRA) in Mumbai, India. Enacted in 1976, the stated aim of this legislation was to prevent speculation in the urban land market, and to make land available for affordable housing. The legislation imposed a "ceiling" on the amount of vacant land individuals …
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An Economic Reevaluation of Navi Mumbai and the Indian Satellite City
Navi Mumbai, a municipality in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, is the largest satellite city project in India. Nevertheless, it has been seen within the planning discipline as underperforming its original ambitions. Drawing upon the goals enumerated in the city’s original development plan, this …
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An Urban Koliwada: Redevelopment of a Fishing Village in Mumbai, India
… and create peaceful coexistence. The city of Mumbai in 2018 is in many ways - the Metropolis. When a city develops, it does not seem to cater to all sects of people. In fact, there seems to be a parallel relationship between the size of the city and its level of socio-economic disparity: the …
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Belonging in the Segregated City: Gender, community and urban citizenship in Mumbai, India
… in and from segregated neighbourhoods in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Here, the analysis of belonging extends to critically examine the situated understandings and negotiations of closely related concepts of community and citizenship over a period of socio-spatial-political change. In …
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Travel based multitasking on the Mumbai Local and Metro : measurement, classification and variation
… occurring on mass transit modes in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It takes the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway and the upcoming Line I and Ill of the Mumbai Metro as case studies to understand TBM activities in the Indian context. Firstly, this thesis calculates the …
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A matter of understanding : urban design strategies to integrate street vendors in Mumbai
… offers a better solution. It inquires into Mumbai's structure and how the street vendors use civic space to inform a new design creating an equitable integration of the informal markets into the emerging modern paradigms of urban design. The thesis presumes that small-scale street markets …
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The Antecedents, Process, and Consequences of Female Sterilization for Low-Income Women in Mumbai
<p>Surgical sterilization is the primary method of family planning among low-income women in India; the result of limited knowledge and poor access to family planning alternatives. To understand the dynamics of sterilization, 37 in-depth interviews were conducted with sterilized women from the …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
… sample of more than 400 slum-dwellers in Mumbai. The field research in India combined laboratory experiments, an original survey, and interviews. Once I manipulated expectations of reciprocity, ethnically heterogeneous groups produced as much public goods as the homogeneous ones. The …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… for low-income workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Mumbai, India. It analyses the grounded spatial forms, as well as how these urban accommodations are managed and governed, and coexist across South Asian contexts. In Dhaka, my case studies focus on ‘Mess Housing’ typology in two neighbourhoods’: …
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Exploring mechanisms for improved air quality in Mumbai resettlement dwellings : evidence from fieldwork and simulation
In megacities like Mumbai, rapid urban migration has driven over half the population to reside in informal settlements known as "slums." The local government seeks more efficient use of scarce land and a higher standard of living for slum dwellers by resettling them in permanent multistory …
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Towards an integrated recycling system : analyzing two scenarios of informal recycling sector performance in Mumbai, India
… recyclers are less well known. In Mumbai, India, the municipal government has proposed introducing MRFs in each ward of the city, and hopes to integrate informal recyclers into the MRF system. I focus on the effect of these MRFs on kabadiwalas, small-scale aggregators in the …
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Spaces for engagement in the city of Mumbai : rethinking parks and public spaces in congested cities
Unplanned urbanization in Mumbai has left the city in a dense congested state with only 1.7m 2 of open space per person. The present dense living conditions also make it impossible to construct any large park or centrally accessible public space in the city. To construct a park the size of central …
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The Transcultural Production of Creative Subjectivity:London Art, Design, and Communication Education in Mumbai and Shanghai Cultural Industries
… art and design higher education now active in Mumbai and Shanghai cultural industries, drawing on interviews with 51 practitioners. It proposes a framework emphasising the dialectical roots of Leon Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development in Hegelian dialectics to study creative …
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