ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses to what extent New Bombay, after 25 years of project implementation, has been successful in meeting several of these initial goals. It looks at the twin city’s overall growth and development over the last two and a half decades. The chapter draws on a socio-economic profile of the population currently living in the different newly developed townships of New Bombay, and also discusses to what extent New Bombay can, indeed, be called a city for all classes and all people. It provides some explanations for the socio-economic dynamics which have been at work in the area, and which have given shape to what New Bombay. The new city, which was to be of metropolitan size and was to be a self-containing counter-magnet to Greater Bombay, was called New Bombay. A major speculation drive, of which the effect was felt all over urban India but mainly in and around Bombay, was the direct result.
