Improving Walkability and Pedestrian Experience on Mumbai's Footpaths
Current Projects
Universal accessibility achieved through Demonstration Streets Project - Improving Walkability and pedestrianisation (UCM/ PJC) with M-West Ward, BMC
Urban Centre Mumbai has been working extensively with BMC and other local authorities to implement standardised, uniform, levelled footpath surfaces with a design life of 30 to 50 years to improve walkability, pedestrian experience and ensure universal accessibility on footpaths across Greater Mumbai, Eastern and Western Suburbs. These projects have been implemented in A, D, F-North, M-West, H-East and P-South Wards of Mumbai.
About Urban Centre Mumbai
Conceptualised as a collective space, Urban Centre Mumbai presents a node for dialogue, ideating, deliberation, to carry out research and to communicate on urban planning, urban design, urban conservation and sustainable urban development, between communities, stakeholders and various agencies, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Urban Centre Mumbai has been set up under the aegis of Urban Centre Trust* (est. 2020). UCT is a not-for-profit charitable organisation* set up to build capacities, and create democratic platforms which can strive to achieve and demonstrate excellence in the planning and design of Indian cities.
*Urban Centre Trust has been registered under the Charity Commissioner of Maharashtra as a Public Charitable Trust with 12A and 80g approvals under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Donations to the Trust will be tax exempt.
"We are strong promoters of participatory planning models, and are focused on community-based outreach planning, through a non-discriminatory, not-for-profit space to encourage and facilitate a platform for public, semi-public and private discussions and discourses on transformative urban projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region."
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Urban Centre Mumbai
Plot no. 81, Flat no. 2, First Floor,
Bombay Hindu Housing Society,
Road no. 2, Hindu Colony, Dadar East
Mumbai - 400 014
Monday to Saturday | 10 am to 6 pm
Contact: +912231578742