Mumbai City stands on a precipice. Extensive development, unrestricted gentrification and urban renewal on a scale unseen are transforming the city’s social, economic, cultural, and physical landscape, erasing layers of history.
Mumbai Memory introduces young people to alterations in the physical landscape by analyzing and documenting the surrounding environment. As historians, students draw meaning from their observations and pose a variety of questions based on their findings. What do these transformations tell us about ourselves and the world we inhabit? How will the changes impact our future? Understanding the forces at work behind such development and our role within this evolution provides us with a choice. Do we want to impact these changes, or not?
It looks at trends that have influenced these communities and factors that have shaped their histories.
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