000			00885pab a2200157 454500
008			180718b2005 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aDossal, Mariam
245			_aA master plan for the city: looking at the past
260			_c2005
300			_ap.3897-900.
362			_a3 Sep
520			_aA play of vested interests has always ensured the shelving of successive master plans devised for the city's planned development. This article looks at efforts to `improve' Mumbai, initiated in the last 1890s and the early years of the last century, following the outbreak of the plague epidemic. The story of how such initiatives were stymied by groups comprising traders and developers acting in concert, is in turn revelatory of how little seems to have changed over the decades. - Reproduced.
650			_aUrban planning
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a66887
999			_c66887 _d66887