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Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Circle Mumbai
Mumbai, Maharastra, India
Mumbai, Maharastra, India
A new means of movement and
distribution for India's island city.
Transportation infrastructure is
the spine of economic and
social growth. Other agendas
for urban renewal follow. The
current motivation to
accelerate development of the
many proposed mass
circulation schemes in Mumbai
should be encouraged as they
represent necessary steps in
inviting both domestic and
foreign direct investment into
other contingent arenas of the
city's economy.
At the 2007 India Infrastructure
Investment Conference, it was
asserted that while current
spending on infrastructure has
been about five percent of
GDP, it is now targeted to be
nine percent by 2012, which
would call for an investment of
about 500 billion dollars over
the next five years.
The proposal before you works
at the regional scale by
physically unifying the five key
Central Business Districts in
Greater Mumbai with a singular
organized ring corridor. As an
urban design framework it will
encourage the inevitable and
increasing densification of the
city to happen along this road,
(which already exists as a
composite of iterative
micro-connections but lacks a
higher cohesion.)
Where the "circle" navigates
through the unique districts of
Mumbai it will enhance the
public capacity and mobility
through Air Rights
development. Determined
spatially at the neighborhood
scale by social infrastructure,
pedestrian circulation networks
and microclimate, each
composition is adaptable to the
dynamic foreground matrix and
part of a decisive and
fundamental strategy for not
only increasing, but also
strengthening Mumbai's
carrying capacity in the coming
years.
distribution for India's island city.
Transportation infrastructure is
the spine of economic and
social growth. Other agendas
for urban renewal follow. The
current motivation to
accelerate development of the
many proposed mass
circulation schemes in Mumbai
should be encouraged as they
represent necessary steps in
inviting both domestic and
foreign direct investment into
other contingent arenas of the
city's economy.
At the 2007 India Infrastructure
Investment Conference, it was
asserted that while current
spending on infrastructure has
been about five percent of
GDP, it is now targeted to be
nine percent by 2012, which
would call for an investment of
about 500 billion dollars over
the next five years.
The proposal before you works
at the regional scale by
physically unifying the five key
Central Business Districts in
Greater Mumbai with a singular
organized ring corridor. As an
urban design framework it will
encourage the inevitable and
increasing densification of the
city to happen along this road,
(which already exists as a
composite of iterative
micro-connections but lacks a
higher cohesion.)
Where the "circle" navigates
through the unique districts of
Mumbai it will enhance the
public capacity and mobility
through Air Rights
development. Determined
spatially at the neighborhood
scale by social infrastructure,
pedestrian circulation networks
and microclimate, each
composition is adaptable to the
dynamic foreground matrix and
part of a decisive and
fundamental strategy for not
only increasing, but also
strengthening Mumbai's
carrying capacity in the coming
years.