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Mumbai Is Creating Vertical Slums For Its Displaced Urban Poor
Urban poor displaced by Mumbai’s roads and rail live in squalor.
27 Nov 2019, 05:18 PM IST
In 1994, Hong Kong demolished Kowloon Walled City—300 interconnected, slum towers where 35,000 people lived in an area equivalent of three football fields. At the time, it was the world’s most crowded place. But as the city-state razed its symbol of shame, Mumbai was planning to build its own crowded, vertical shantytowns. India’s financial capital wanted to rehabilitate the poor displaced by roads and rail lines. Execution, though, ...
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