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Spring 2014

The Urban Evolution: Stiching Mumbai's Eastern Waterfront with The Urban Evolution: Stiching Mumbai's Eastern Waterfront with

the Incremental Symbiosis- Part 2 the Incremental Symbiosis- Part 2

Betsy Daniel

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collage of communities, bodies, and entities that e ist in various networks in a landscape of ama ing disconnections of use and misuse.

and establishing new networks in this disused landscape in the hopes that in the second phase these productive symbiotic networks will promote revitali ation.

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each wor er earning less than a day

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Bhaba Atomic Research Center

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cut to smaller pieces

storage

internetmarketing

selling to manufacturer

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heavymaterialmarket

the ystem D

each wor er earning less than a day

the rocessship breaking

informal workersli e in haru hana with no access to hysical

and legal ramewor s o sanitation and water

Dharukhana

sellingcut steelto

bigindustries

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the

wor ers rotected with

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anesh teelndian teel

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Aegis Logisticsul i uid argo andling

Bhaba Atomic Research Center

uclear esearchoot rint e enue ro it

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TATA owerlectric ower o oration

oot rint e enue 2ro it 2 2

ut ut Unit oil Unit coal Unit coal gas tant ca acity Utili ation Unit coal 2

Bharat etroleum Co. LTDetrochemical e ining

industanetroleum

etrochemical e ining

oot rint 2 2 combinede enue combinedro it 2 combined

anu actured rocessed igh s eed diesel uel urnace oil otor s irit a htha e ane en ene oluene oly ro ylene eedstoc iation turbine uel ight diesel uel ineral tur entine ube oil base stoc ow sul hur hea y stoc Sul hur itumen Sol ent 2 erosene

Rashtriya Chemicalsertili er anu acturing

oot rint e enue 2 2ro it 2

blended agricultural ertili ers andhydrous ammonia urea methanol methyl amines sodium nitrate sodium nitrite ammonium nitrate ammonium bicarbonate

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utch

inu

arat because of the

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stream

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umbai

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Reay RoadDockyard Road

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structure

informal workersli e in haru hana with no access to hysical

and legal ramewor s o sanitation and water

productive landscape

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loating ishing illagesloating arms

nesting habitats or lamingos

productive landscape

obs for the slum sectors

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new ba aar and market

goods rom the roducti e

landsca e to be sold here