Bombay The Cities Within BOMBAY SHELF

Bombay was not an indigenous Indian city. It was built by the British expressly for maintaining trade links with India and was perhaps never expected to become a large town. Bombay was therefore not a planned city but came into being with every step of its growth being impulsive and incremental – expressing in its form the idea of the city as a field of human enterprise, each new development in the city thus expressed in its physical form the needs and lifestyles of the people who created or occupied these areas.

And so Bombay grew precinct by precinct becoming a collage not only of varying architectural styles and different urban forms, but even more importantly of the many ethnic and social groups that colonized its growing localities. In BTCW the authors have traced the evolution of Bombay and its various precincts – the many worlds that were built and are continuing to be created upon it.

This book is an attempt to understand the city’s contemporary skyline that presents a medley if architectural silhouettes where cotton mill chimney stacks, neo-gothic towers, skyscrapers, shanty settlements and domestic vernacular dwellings all coalesce to form the many layered cosmopolitarianism which characterizes the palimpsest that is the metropolis of Bombay.

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