what a river means to a city?
what a river means to a city?
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2017 . URBAN DESIGN . POISAR RIVER

As a landscape that has become speculative and an object of greed, it is often difficult to remind oneself that the city of Mumbai rests on a ground shaped by the actions of water over millennia. Not long ago, was when human alteration rose, first the gaothans were superimposed by the engineered infrastructures of the British, then post-independence development led an even more increase in the appropriation of land for purposes beyond local communities . Film City, Mahindra Factory and Charkop Industrial Area began to take root, impinging upon the rivers. Simultaneously the floodplains allowed for para-legal forms of occupation - the densest populations within the city are found here.Flooding in each Monsoon has led to increasing socio-economic aggravation for the urban poor, pronounced by administrative measures that favour gated communities, segregated planning and the automobile. In this context we asked the question of what would it mean to re-envision a relationship with the river?

As a landscape that has become speculative and an object of greed, it is often difficult to remind oneself that the city of Mumbai rests on a ground shaped by the actions of water over millennia. Not long ago, was when human alteration rose, first the gaothans were superimposed by the engineered infrastructures of the British, then post-independence development led an even more increase in the appropriation of land for purposes beyond local communities . Film City, Mahindra Factory and Charkop Industrial Area began to take root, impinging upon the rivers. Simultaneously the floodplains allowed for para-legal forms of occupation - the densest populations within the city are found here.Flooding in each Monsoon has led to increasing socio-economic aggravation for the urban poor, pronounced by administrative measures that favour gated communities, segregated planning and the automobile. In this context we asked the question of what would it mean to re-envision a relationship with the river?

As a landscape that has become speculative and an object of greed, it is often difficult to remind oneself that the city of Mumbai rests on a ground shaped by the actions of water over millennia. Not long ago, was when human alteration rose, first the gaothans were superimposed by the engineered infrastructures of the British, then post-independence development led an even more increase in the appropriation of land for purposes beyond local communities . Film City, Mahindra Factory and Charkop Industrial Area began to take root, impinging upon the rivers. Simultaneously the floodplains allowed for para-legal forms of occupation - the densest populations within the city are found here.Flooding in each Monsoon has led to increasing socio-economic aggravation for the urban poor, pronounced by administrative measures that favour gated communities, segregated planning and the automobile. In this context we asked the question of what would it mean to re-envision a relationship with the river?

As a landscape that has become speculative and an object of greed, it is often difficult to remind oneself that the city of Mumbai rests on a ground shaped by the actions of water over millennia. Not long ago, was when human alteration rose, first the gaothans were superimposed by the engineered infrastructures of the British, then post-independence development led an even more increase in the appropriation of land for purposes beyond local communities . Film City, Mahindra Factory and Charkop Industrial Area began to take root, impinging upon the rivers. Simultaneously the floodplains allowed for para-legal forms of occupation - the densest populations within the city are found here.Flooding in each Monsoon has led to increasing socio-economic aggravation for the urban poor, pronounced by administrative measures that favour gated communities, segregated planning and the automobile. In this context we asked the question of what would it mean to re-envision a relationship with the river?

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