Infrastructure

With four railway station areas in Mumbai up for an overhaul, the architect Samir D’Monte talks through the improvement of the Bandra West station.

A well planned public space in a busy city like Mumbai could address several challenges that children and adults face today, in a post-pandemic world.

WRI and MCGM collaborated on a pilot project to create safe school zones near two Mumbai schools, based on principles of tactical urbanism.

With a series of small low-cost changes to the urbanscape, the BMC’s tactical urbanism drive seeks to improve the experience of life in the city.

As floods and landslides have become frequent disasters to strike Mumbai, monsoon preparedness, warnings and evacuations are the need of the hour.

Ahead of the Monsoon season, the BMC is in the process of pre-monsoon work that will mitigate the impact of the rains on roads and storm water drains.

The Mumbai Parking Authority will soon begin its pilot implementation in Mumbai. Prachi Merchant, a member, answers questions on developments so far.

Thousands of abandoned vehicles have led Mumbai police to launch a ‘Khatara Hatao’ campaign. But what else can owners do with end-of-life vehicles?

The BMC, using high resolution archived satellite images and stamped geospatial imagery, will now be able to identify how an area developed over time.

A snapshot in time of St Francis Pakhady, a gaothan in Vile Parle, one of the few remaining but vanishing remnants of Mumbai’s early inhabitants.

A webinar hosted by Citizen Matters discussed the state of urban planning in Mumbai by analysing different areas like environment and infrastructure.

Government restrictions on using public spaces in Mumbai, in view of rising COVID-19 cases, is doing more harm than good to children and adults.