Top Down: Vision Mumbai

• In 2003, Vision Mumbai was proposed to improve Mumbai. It invested 40 million into the project and was planned to complete it by 2050
• Vision Mumbai s goal was to end traffic congestion, end pollution and improve water quality.
• Some of the first things vision Mumbai did was restore over 300 green spaces with dumped waste, make better quality roads, increase train capacity and add 300 extra public toilets
• Key goals of vision Mumbai

  • Build 1 million low cost homes
  • Reduce size of slums
  • Improve transport
  • Improve air and water quality
• Vision Mumbai would demolish slums and replace them with apartments and make people pay rent to live there
• Vision Mumbai made people angry as they wanted to renovate slums rather then demolish them, as they felt slums were a traditions and apartments separated communities
• Some argued that Vision Mumbai only benefited the rich, as slums were also replaced with office buildings to improve the economy