Uploaded on 2015-06-16 by NavinBoricha

Looking at these from the stocks and flow concept, what becomes evident is that a large and populous city like Mumbai essentially guzzles these resource ‘stocks’, ‘flowing’ very little back out of the city. Of course, it generates a humungous amount of money which it flows out far and wide - but in terms of other natural resources, it just takes, giving back very little (if at all). Looking a bit deeper at the most important ‘stock and flow’ of people, the city has slowly taken a few steps forward. Earlier South Mumbai used to be the epicentre of corporations and everyone commuted from the suburbs into the city for work. In more recent years however, the town planners have developed multiple business districts across the city and hence the ‘flow’ of people is a bit less uni-directional. This is also evident in the attached photograph. This is a late afternoon photograph so we do see a (purple and grey) local railway train (bottom half of the photograph) - but it still does not have the people typically jammed in. Also visible in the top centre is the year old (grey and pink) ‘Metro train’ (middle of the top of the photo). Since the 100+ years old railway train network does not cover the geographies of the new business districts, these are now being serviced by the ‘Metro network’. While this is a positive sign overall, and the Metro is definitely a boon for commuters - but stepping back one does see other aspects highlighted by the ‘Future Cities’ course. Specifically, the local railway train network has coaches and engines which are built locally within India, while the Metro trains are imported. So convenience and comfort has come for commuters, but only by succumbing to ‘global construction’. ![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1434430403793676.jpg