Project Description
MUMBAI READER 2010
Mumbai Reader’10 is available for reference and purchase at UDRI Resource Centre.
PREFACE
The difficulty in representing Mumbai now is that there is alwayfeeling that such representations may fall into one of the several limitations of reading the city linearly. These limitations of linearity include making gross generalisations, or getting lost in seductive micro-narratives, or constructing incredible scenarios through meticulous empiricisms. While the generalisations strip the complexities of the city from the readings, the micro narratives are often myopic. Similarly, the approaches of using empiricisms are driven by preconceived agendas for problem solving.
Individually, the generalisations, micro narrations and the empiricisms are unable to capture the complexity of Systems, Organisations, and Space in the city. This impossibility of conceptualising the city warrants the need to read the city in multiple ways that simultaneously include an almost palimpsest like reading of all the approaches. To talk about the city then, would be to talk simultaneously in multiple disparate ways, in multiple languages and with multiple perspectives. The Mumbai Reader is an attempt to undertakrepresentation of the city that enables innumerable readings througsimultaneous and non-linear compilation of multiple voices in the city. The contents include some of the most recent perspectives on culture, economy, geography and history of the city. While it records the routine mainstream labour history and planning discourse types of writings; it also overlaps these with some of the current debates on absurdities that the city is faced with the issues relating to bar-dancers, changing of street names etc. The perspectives include voices from the bureaucracy, civil society organisations, academics, industry, judiciary, media, professionals, artists and many others. The Reader does not claim to bcomprehensive or an exhaustive compilation of readings on the city. It is rather an attempt to providglimpse of the complex dynamics of the city of Mumbai. The process of making this compilation was initiated througcall for papers made tvaried set of individuals in order to ensure an array of perspectives that would present treader diverse possibility of perceiving the city.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Governing Organisations, Ward Offices Architectural College
- Hometown: The City in the Postnational Landscape
- End of the Line
- Homeless in Neoliberal Cities: View from Mumbai
- The Slum and the Development Plan
- After the Violence: How the Mumbai Riots Changed Life for Muslim’s in Chawl
- Three Decades of Living in Mumbai: Moments of Joy and Despair
- India, Higher Education and Bollywood
- Urban Design & Health of the City
- Flawed Urban Vision
- Protecting the Urban Environment
- Saving Mangroves of S. No.161 Versova, 2001-2010
- Dreamworlds
- Bar Dancers, Morality and the Indian Law
- Population Change and Economic Restructuring in Mumbai
- Street Vendors in Mumbai
- Mumbai’s Pedestrian Paradox
- Setting the Right Priorities for Mumbai Transportation
- Between Kharghar & Khandeshwar
- Culture Counts: Civic Activism in Mumbai
- Extract from ‘The unbelongers’, ‘Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets’
- A Joint Enterprise: The Creation of a New Landscape in British Bombay
- The Reshaping of Mumbai, Whose city is it?
- A Cultural Policy for Maharashtra
- 60 Years of Heritage
- The Dark Urban Age of the World Class City
- Diversity, Complexity, Conviviality: Propositions for Urban Development
- Fear of Victimization in Urban Neighborhoods Case of Mumbai
- “Between the Two Fires”-“Life Goes on – 24X7”
- An Extract for a Container Terminal for Mumbai Port in The 21st Century
- The Poetics of FSI
- Analyzing Urban Layouts
- Icons of Mumbai
- Catalogue to the Ward Plans Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay + Index to the – Compilation of D C Regulations 1991 updated till 15.12.2008
- Notes from the Fringes: A Brief Note on Mumbai Metropolitan Region
- Ecologies of the Periphery
- UDRI
- Bombay/Mumbai Book & Acts
- Reading Urbanism & Documenting Trends