Mumbai Local
Design and planning projects exploring Mumbai's local communities, infrastructure, and urban fabric.
Mumbai Local covers design work that engages with the city's distinctive character, from its transit systems and waterfront spaces to its residential patterns and public realm. Projects in this topic examine how design can address Mumbai's specific urban conditions and community needs.
The community explores transit integration, waterfront reimagining, vertical living solutions, and strategies for connecting fragmented neighborhoods. Work ranges from infrastructure studies and architectural proposals to urban analysis that centers local perspectives and existing systems.
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View all 12 journalsRe-Thinking the Vertical Living: A Mumbai Skyscraper Conceived as a Self-Sustaining Vertical Ecosystem
A thesis tower for Mumbai that stacks housing, offices, vertical farms and transit into one mixed-use ecosystem to spare the city's dwindling land.
Redevelopment of Sassoon Docks: A Working Harbor Reimagined as Public Waterfront
Sushmita Tripathi's master plan transforms 20 acres of Mumbai's oldest fishing harbor into a dual precinct of industry and civic life.
Kripya Dhyan Dijiye: Rethinking Mumbai's Urban Fabric Through Synchronized Transit
A transit-oriented development strategy that reimagines Mumbai as a circuit of connected nodes, aligning mobility architecture with digital systems by 2030
Urban Embroidery: Stitching Mumbai's Fragmented Transit into a Living Network
A multi-scalar mobility framework reconnects metro, rail, and BRT through green corridors and reimagined public spaces at Andheri Station.