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Typological changes & life: transformations of mill land in Mumbai

Type, Behaviour and Experience
Sharvri Raut, 2022

Girangaon, an area in central Mumbai once had 130 textile mills. The areas of Tardeo, Mazgaon, Byculla, Parel, Lalbaug, Worli and Prabhadevi housed the mills and also the chawls for mill workers. Lower Parel used to have a large number of textile mills that created a distinct urban life around them. After the economic downturn caused by the labour strike in 1982, mills were shut leaving workers helpless. The mill workers’ strike cost people their lives, their home and their identities. People working in the mills were the sole breadwinners of their families. For several years, they survived by working as labourers, vendors, taking up low-paying part-time jobs, and even started food services. In the last 2 decades, Lower Parel transformed from an industrial area to a commercial and corporate centre and the nearby chawls redeveloped into apartment buildings. The culture, routines, movement, relationships, homes and working conditions of the community of erstwhile mill workers changed entirely. The face of mill lands has completely transformed, affecting the relationship between workspaces, people and their neighbourhood.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the urban form of mill lands and the everyday practices of its inhabitants. The research looks closely at the ecologies of Dawn Mill, Matulya MIll and Gokuldas Morarjee Mill which have transformed into Peninsula Business Park, Sun Palazzo and Peninsula Corporate Park respectively to study the transforming urban form and house form through the changing economic networks over a period of time and how it shapes social life.

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