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URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCENOVEMBER 2007

Charles CorreaArchitect, Charles Correa Associates

Mumbai: Which Way Forward?

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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

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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