City bypassed: the casualties of Mumbai’s urban renewal | openDemocracy
▻http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/ayona-datta/city-bypassed-casualties-of-mumbais-urban-renewal
A short film exploring Mumbai’s urban renewal as seen from Byculla, a multicultural inner-city neighbourhood symbolically and physically bypassed by road infastructure projects in Mumbai’s race for global city status (13 mins).
▻http://vimeo.com/71271947#at=0
City Bypassed: The casualties of Mumbai’s urban renewal from Ayona Datta on Vimeo.
Mumbai’s road to global city status has been marked by the construction of flyovers and road infrastructure projects. Apart from increasing the speed with which the city’s new arrivals travel from its domestic/international airport straight to the business district, these infrastructure projects also enable Mumbai as an aspiring global city to make its marginal spaces and citizens invisible to these new arrivals in the city. City bypassed presents the story of Mumbai’s urban renewal as seen from Byculla, a multicultural inner-city neighbourhood symbolically and physically bypassed by road infrastructure projects along Mumbai’s journey to global city status.
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