ABSTRACT
Modern urban planning emerged in the 19th-century European industrial city as a response to the public health crisis and led to better laid out streets and improvements in light and ventilation as well as water supply and sanitation. Since then, it is widely agreed that good urban policies and planning can actively help mitigate disease burdens and promote better health. Ironically, in the last two decades, it is urban policy and planning initiatives tied to urban renewal in Mumbai that have incubated public health disasters. Slum redevelopment projects and urban infrastructure projects undertaken in Mumbai since the early 2000s with resettlement policies, processes, and geographies are at the center of this public health crisis. Importantly, though they are effectively urban planning interventions, neither resettlement program has been worked out through the statutory land-use planning process, though provisions for PAPs have been part of DPs 1964 and 1991.
