Uploaded on 2014-11-06 by AishT

COLABA CAUSEWAY, DOWNTOWN MUMBAI, INDIA 1. History recalls Mumbai to be Bombay – the city of seven islands. The islands along with their fishermen dwellers were the “stocks” of the region until the 18th century imposition of the British Raj in India. The growth and advancement of the city into its present state of affairs – as the Financial Capital of India, is the complete array of gradual and steady “flows” the land of the city has been through. In the course of the advent of the British rule, the city was formed through the high territory reclamation method by amalgamating the islands to form a distinct solitary piece of land in the country. The picture displayed is a case in point of a ‘flow’ concept. The commercial edges keep evolving, or rather updating their goods in terms of the imminent demands in fashion or other physical trends of the urban society. However, the broader perspective here is that of the fact that before the territorial merger of Bombay, the subject street was a slender narrow stone pathway flanked by the sea on either side; leading towards the military cantonment of the British (the present day Navy Nagar) known as ‘Colaba’ and the path was known as “The Causeway”. In consistence, today the street is being called “Colaba Causeway” and it identifies as a major shopping and commercial destination of the city. 2. The present prevailing stocks and flows of the southern part of Mumbai that I am taking into consideration are the people and the density. Being a part of the ‘downtown region’ of the entire city, it is the most populous during the working hours of the day along with the insertions of tourist attraction spots and temporary accommodations, commercial corridors and corporate belts. These are the flows. The stocks are the prevailing fishing villages that have survived since centuries with their existing communities at the margins and the fringes of the city borders with the sea. The municipal buildings of the city’s old records, museums, libraries, cemeteries, religious buildings are the existing stocks. 3. The city’s downtown has been saturated in terms of the population statistics. Various transportation systems have been limited considering the troubles of pollution and other inhabitable hazards. Through history, as the space and area was encroached into the sea, it is possible for Mumbai’s territorial boundaries to increase into the water, through added reclamation of land. Another aspect that can possibly occur is the emergence of a Central Business District in the newer, less denser part of the city, for example – the existing case of the emergence of New Bombay (Navi Mumbai) [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1415289101243862.jpg