{"product_id":"9789365690781_mumbai","title":"Mumbai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Takes us to places that don't register in our everyday lives - a critical piece of work for future historians.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Rahul Mehrotra,\u003c\/strong\u003e architect and professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A timely book that brings slum dwellers into the public eye - as luxury apartments rise, millions remain invisible to policymakers.'\u003c\/em\u003e -\u003cstrong\u003e Shabana Azmi\u003c\/strong\u003e, actor and housing rights activist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Reads like a tender love letter to a disappearing city - an important contribution to understanding our planet's complex urban future.\u003cstrong\u003e' \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- James Crabtree\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of The Billionaire Raj, former Mumbai bureau chief, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidharth Bhatia's \u003cem\u003eMumbai: A Million Islands\u003c\/em\u003e is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space, but memory, history and the very fabric of a living city. Mumbai's famed spirit of survival is being tested like never before. Where the original seven islands had symbolized a synergy, today they're multiplying as fractures-social, spatial and economic-splitting the city into a million islands, each more isolated than the other. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sidharth Bhatia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46899255509141,"sku":"9789365690781","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9789365690781_fdb9a030-9afa-4b9f-bdcd-9497fb11084c.jpg?v=1776992599","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9789365690781_mumbai","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}