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Upgrading roads: transforming edge affordances

Mobility and Publics
Bharvi Shetye, 2022

How does the upgradation of road transport infrastructure change the spatiality of habitation and the form of life along its edges? My research explores this question against the backdrop of numerous layers of road upgradation projects that have been underway in Mumbai since the 1990s. While news reports largely focus on the real estate impacts of the transformation produced by road infrastructure upgradation, I choose to focus on the changes in spatiality that they bring about and the implications on the lives of those who live on their edges.

My site is Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road, which connects the city’s major north-south arteries, that is the Western and Eastern Express Highways. My focus is on a length of three kilometres of this artery abutting the Western Express Highway.

Methodologically, my study focused on two scales. I first analysed the spatial transformations resulting from road infrastructure upgradation through a historical analysis of land use and Google Maps. This study helped me identify four critical edge sections to study the spatial transformations through time. And second, I analyzed the spatial transformations in these four edge sections.

My thesis argues that the spatial transformations resulting from infrastructural upgradation of roads create mass displacements and relocations of low-income households and enterprise, on the one hand, and opportunities for spatial readjustments, on the other hand. Both affect the everyday life of the people whose builtform transforms due to infrastructural upgradation. Low income households who are displaced and relocated in slum rehabilitation schemes find themselves inhabiting a builtform that is not conducive to their everyday life.

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