Welcome to the Mumbai Eastern Waterfront website. This Website is an initiative of the Urban Design program together with the Earth Institute at Columbia University. It was launched to share the work produced by graduate students during a joint studio by Columbia University, JJ School of Architecture and the TISS – School of Habitat Studies, which was held in the Spring 2010.

We are hoping that the work published on this site will contribute constructively to ongoing discussions on the future of Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront. While Mumbai can consider itself lucky to have much of its shipping needs supplied into its core areas by a thriving Port that directly or indirectly employs up to one lakh (100,000) people, many voices are demanding an improved and widened public access to this Eastern Waterfront for the city at large.

The Columbia-JJ-TISS studio seeks to address some of these pressing issues in the context of an overheated city, which seems to be reinventing itself by the day. This Website is an attempt at opening the debate to the larger public and an invitation to all users and stakeholders to participate and contribute.

The EWF website is designed and managed by URBZ, a Mumbai based organization dedicated to the development of tools and methodologies for participatory urban planning.