ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with the development of colonial Bombay in an effort to understand the vision which shaped the building of the city. It endeavours to consider whether urban planning and development was sensitive to the natural ecosystem. The chapter will explore the discourses which emerged in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bombay over sanitation and housing the urban poor. It will also consider the legacies of uneven spatial development, uncoordinated planning and colonial land reclamation for Mumbai’s contemporary environmental stresses.
