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An Urban Tour Of Mumbai

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

26 October 2006 - 2:00pm

An automobile tour through Mumbai (Bombay) reveals the extreme contrasts in India's financial capital.

"Perhaps as in no other urban area in the world, the complete array from wealth to poverty is on display in Mumbai. Shantytowns sit adjacent to luxury condominium buildings. People sleep on the streets in front of the same luxury condominiums...Mumbai has the look of an international or "world city." Numerous high-rise buildings are spread throughout...Mumbai has a strong central business district (downtown) and edge cities of international standard are developing outside the central business district...The central business district may have the most intense collection of 19th century British commercial architecture in the world."

[PDF, 26 pages, 4.1 MB] Includes a photo essay.

Full Story: Mumbai: First & Third Worlds Together (PDF)
Source: Urban Tours by Rental Car, October 26, 2006
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These interconnections ratify for us the sense that markets are as strong as confidence is present and confidence is as justified as patterns are dependable. These are what might be called our community moorings: anchored, tangible patterns.
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