Is Mumbai ready for skyscrapers?
According to some, the financial capital 'needs to go vertical.' But as we all know, growing up in Mumbai isn't easy
Mumbai still tends to use more land than sky. That may change.What in his day Shakespeare called "cloud capp'd towers," we call skyscrapers -- massive constructions attesting to the grandeur of modern architecture. And a modern economy.
Driving on the Worli-Bandra sea-link one can't help but notice the conspicuously empty skyline of Mumbai. While spatial constraints in the city inform the decision to go vertical, skyscrapers, as this article from "The Economic Times" points out, "are also a status symbol."
But is Mumbai ready for skyscrapers? Read the article for a longer look into the matter.
