The view from atop a high rise on Marine Drive looking across Back Bay to the WNW. Mumbai is India’s second largest city and its most affluent but it is also home to one of the world’s largest slums.
Like much of Asia’s large and growing metropolitan areas, Mumbai is also struggling to deal with traffic congestion, smog, poverty and affordable housing, while it is also home to some of Asia’s richest residents helping to fuel a huge building boom.
Mumbai was actually built from what was originally an archipelago of seven islands that included Mumbai Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli, and Old Woman’s Island (also known as Little Colaba). The islands were turned into a single landmass by the Hornby Vellard engineering project in 1784.
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