: When reimagining its streets, Mumbai should go beyond mere beautification #IndiaNEWS Since the past few years, Mumbai has been thinking of ways to reimagine its streets. This is in keeping with a trend

When reimagining its streets, Mumbai should go beyond mere beautification #IndiaNEWS
Since the past few years, Mumbai has been thinking of ways to reimagine its streets. This is in keeping with a trend across global cities. Streets have been key testing grounds for new experiments and visions as the pandemic has prompted citizens and city governments to reimagine their relationship with public space. Building off principles in the city’s new Climate Action Plan, Mumbai has an opportunity to go beyond beautifying streets towards creating equitable and environmentally sensitive design and planning changes.Especially in teeming metropolises, roads and footpaths are sites of constant contestation and negotiation over space, belonging and expression. Although they are primarily seen as facilitating mobility, streets enable so much more that is central to urban life from commerce to leisure to utilities. Some of the hard and permanent choices include placement of electricity, gas and water lines. In parallel, over centuries, Indians have fashioned a soft fluidity on urban thoroughfares – the same corner or curb could be home to a tree shrine around an ancient banyan or peepal, used by a newspaper seller in the morning and cobbler through the day, or serve as an ephemeral marketplace for marigold sellers who fleetingly grace the city around festivals.Since they contain manifold...Read more

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