Building boomers and fragmentation of space in Mumbai

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal Economic & Political Weekly
Volume | Issue number 43 | 21
Pages (from-to) 29-34
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract The Maharashtra government has
extended the transfer of
development rights instrument -
a market mechanism originally
used to provide public amenities
- for constructing houses for
project-affected persons. Data
indicates that a majority of these
townships have come up in a city
ward where many of the poor
live. In a situation where the real
estate market is driven by the
profit motive, unregulated use of
the TDR has the potential to cause
further fragmentation of already
socially and economically
segregated urban spaces.
Document type Article
Published at http://www.epw.org.in/epw//uploads/articles/12286.pdf
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