Adaptive Geographies

Adaptive Geographies: Towards a Flood Resilient Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Khandelwal, S. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Stead, D. (mentor)
Hackauf, U.D. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities

2020-07-06

Mumbai is the commercial capital of the country. The economy and morphology of the city has been shaped by the physical infrastructure but has neglected the ecological and social aspects in planning. This has led to the extreme vulnerability of the region to ecological and social negative externalities. The region experiences urban flooding every year disrupting the daily lives and inflicting loss to both the life and livelihood of many. Also, the state of emergency due to climate change that the planet deals with fighting sustenance for humankind is a severe challenge. Especially Mumbai, one of the largest cities in the world, is at risk of being wiped out. It is built from an archipelago of islands, the city’s historic downtown core-the island city is particularly vulnerable along with most of the suburban districts. This leads to an urgent need for providing resilience to the socio-ecological system in the region by providing climate adaptive capacity against floods.

Ecology
Infrastructure
Flooding
Adaptation

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