The Battle of Bezubaan

  • Student VAISHNAVI AKILLA
  • Code UD4016
  • Faculty Planning
  • Unit L3 Studio Unit
  • Tutor/s Prasanth Narayanan,Tulika nabar Bhasin

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From a small fishing village to a huge metropolis, Mumbai has seen a lot of changes in its physical form due to various factors. Starting from the seven islands it turned into a single island, by constant land reclamation from the sea. However, the increase in population and the effects of policies over time has resulted in a complicated built form and the land use of the city. During this process of planning, the politicians and planners never considered the existing natural systems of Mumbai. 
Destruction of these systems and construction over them has become a constant trend for decades. Environmental protection in the current global scenario is an emergency. The rapid growth in the Indian cities requires efficient planning ways to provide basic needs to the residents as well as protect the ecological systems remaining in the city. This is a crucial time for the planners and decision-makers at the city level to start considering the environment in their planning. 
 The illustrations are a way to satirically explain the current issues that Bombay is facing. 
It is not only the responsibility of a planner but in the end, it is a collective responsibility of every citizen or resident of the city, every politician and every builder to consider the repercussion that destroying these natural systems would cause. This issue of negligence must be dealt at different scales starting from questioning the seriousness of the law taken by planners or politicians as well as the people who in the end will be suffering the human-driven disasters.