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Polycentric Urbanism and the Growth of New Economic Hubs in Mumbai, India
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PolycentricPolycentricurban growthUrban growth has become a commonCommons feature of most urban spacesUrban spacein post-FordistPost-Fordisttimes. CitiesCities that were originally monocentricMonocentric have adopted polycentric patterns of urban growth, which have been largely fuelled by economic decentralisationEconomic decentralizationand globalisationGlobalization of centres of production and consumption, with far looser connections to the central business districtsCentral Business District (CBDs). Especially since the 1990s, as the developing economies have gradually integrated into the globalised free market, several developing-world cities have also transitioned into polycentricPolycentricfunctionalities. MumbaiMumbai, the financial capital of India,India was fast to transition due to its economic functionality along with the central business districts becoming enormously unaffordable for the middle class. Nariman Point, Mumbai’sMumbaionce-hyped CBDCentral Business District, has now been eclipsed by the newly emerging economic hubs in the suburbia—transitioning the metropolis into a world-class polycentricPolycentric entity. This has changed the concentration of economic and commercial activities across MumbaiMumbai, thereby influencing its housingHousing patterns and commute behaviour. This study explores Mumbai’sMumbai history of transition from a monocentricMonocentric to a polycentricPolycentric existence and compares the declining functionality of its original CBD with the newly emerging economic growthGrowth centres. Our data comprises secondary sources, along with personal reconnaissance and lived-in histories and observations during field surveys that were employed to acquire better insights into the nature of economic and business operations in MumbaiMumbai. Through the employment of descriptive qualitative and textual analysis, we find the increasing role of newly developing polycentricPolycentric-urbanUrban centres and their influence on the changing residential and urban communities of MumbaiMumbai.
Polycentric Urbanism and the Growth of New Economic Hubs in Mumbai, India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-2185
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4135-4097
PolycentricPolycentricurban growthUrban growth has become a commonCommons feature of most urban spacesUrban spacein post-FordistPost-Fordisttimes. CitiesCities that were originally monocentricMonocentric have adopted polycentric patterns of urban growth, which have been largely fuelled by economic decentralisationEconomic decentralizationand globalisationGlobalization of centres of production and consumption, with far looser connections to the central business districtsCentral Business District (CBDs). Especially since the 1990s, as the developing economies have gradually integrated into the globalised free market, several developing-world cities have also transitioned into polycentricPolycentricfunctionalities. MumbaiMumbai, the financial capital of India,India was fast to transition due to its economic functionality along with the central business districts becoming enormously unaffordable for the middle class. Nariman Point, Mumbai’sMumbaionce-hyped CBDCentral Business District, has now been eclipsed by the newly emerging economic hubs in the suburbia—transitioning the metropolis into a world-class polycentricPolycentric entity. This has changed the concentration of economic and commercial activities across MumbaiMumbai, thereby influencing its housingHousing patterns and commute behaviour. This study explores Mumbai’sMumbai history of transition from a monocentricMonocentric to a polycentricPolycentric existence and compares the declining functionality of its original CBD with the newly emerging economic growthGrowth centres. Our data comprises secondary sources, along with personal reconnaissance and lived-in histories and observations during field surveys that were employed to acquire better insights into the nature of economic and business operations in MumbaiMumbai. Through the employment of descriptive qualitative and textual analysis, we find the increasing role of newly developing polycentricPolycentric-urbanUrban centres and their influence on the changing residential and urban communities of MumbaiMumbai.
Polycentric Urbanism and the Growth of New Economic Hubs in Mumbai, India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5622-2185
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4135-4097
PolycentricPolycentricurban growthUrban growth has become a commonCommons feature of most urban spacesUrban spacein post-FordistPost-Fordisttimes. CitiesCities that were originally monocentricMonocentric have adopted polycentric patterns of urban growth, which have been largely fuelled by economic decentralisationEconomic decentralizationand globalisationGlobalization of centres of production and consumption, with far looser connections to the central business districtsCentral Business District (CBDs). Especially since the 1990s, as the developing economies have gradually integrated into the globalised free market, several developing-world cities have also transitioned into polycentricPolycentricfunctionalities. MumbaiMumbai, the financial capital of India,India was fast to transition due to its economic functionality along with the central business districts becoming enormously unaffordable for the middle class. Nariman Point, Mumbai’sMumbaionce-hyped CBDCentral Business District, has now been eclipsed by the newly emerging economic hubs in the suburbia—transitioning the metropolis into a world-class polycentricPolycentric entity. This has changed the concentration of economic and commercial activities across MumbaiMumbai, thereby influencing its housingHousing patterns and commute behaviour. This study explores Mumbai’sMumbai history of transition from a monocentricMonocentric to a polycentricPolycentric existence and compares the declining functionality of its original CBD with the newly emerging economic growthGrowth centres. Our data comprises secondary sources, along with personal reconnaissance and lived-in histories and observations during field surveys that were employed to acquire better insights into the nature of economic and business operations in MumbaiMumbai. Through the employment of descriptive qualitative and textual analysis, we find the increasing role of newly developing polycentricPolycentric-urbanUrban centres and their influence on the changing residential and urban communities of MumbaiMumbai.
Polycentric Urbanism and the Growth of New Economic Hubs in Mumbai, India
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Bhattacharjee, Sujayita (author) / Sharma, Madhuri (author)
2023-05-24
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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