The act of planning, of short-sighted “development”, of the complete hijack by economical and legal language, are all acts of flattening. Flattening every nuance of how lives operate in the highly charged cities of our subcontinent. A culmination of such acts was the resettlement project of Mumbai Urban Transport Project, aimed “to make the life of Mumbaikars more convenient and efficient” as stated by the world bank. People were resettled from all over the city, to its outskirts. Some besides the city’s (read Asia’s) biggest garbage dump, resettled within 72, seven storey buildings spaced 3m apart, reaching a density of 5000 individuals per hectare, a feat possible solely after discarding all building regulations..20 years since construction, people have found their ways to settle and to make life possible. To assist in this process, even before proposing to add, a lot needs to be subtracted (if not the complete reconstruction). Only then smaller interventions can be installed, as simple-first moves, as provocations of play, social gatherings and community interactions.