Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITY is home to five transportation megaprojects under construction throughout this city of 25 million. This short documentary explores each piece of infrastructure and the larger goal of transforming Mumbai, India’s entertainment and financial capital, into a powerful megaregion by the middle of the century.

The megaprojects: Mumbai Metro, Coastal Road, Sewri-Worli Elevated Corridor flyover, Trans Harbour Link, and Navi Mumbai International Airport.

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Video Journalist/Cinematographer - Jayant Parashar
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Journalist Jane Borges
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Kurush Dalal
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Key research links:
https://mumbai.citizenmatters.in/
https://www.mumbaimetrotimes.com/mumb...
Why Mumbai has slums    • Why Mumbai Has Slums  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai
https://www.britannica.com/place/Mumbai
RE-ENVISIONING CITIES - Urban Design in Practise P K Das Lecture    • RE-ENVISIONING CITIES - Urban Design ...  
Megacity from slums to skyscrapers - DW
   • Video  
Metropolis by Ben Wilson https://www.amazon.com/Metropolis-His...
Mumbai Map Explained    • Mumbai Map - EXPLAINED  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_...
Mumbai Metropolitan Region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_...
The Massive Coastal Road That's Dividing Mumbai    • The Massive Coastal Road That's Divid...  

Quoted video sources:
Metro and Coastal road construction    • Economic Sutra By Sanjeev Sanyal | Re...  
Trans Harbour Link    • What's Unique About The Mumbai Trans ...  

Video clip sources
Mumbai, BMC:    / @mybmcmymumbai  
Mumbai local train crowd    / @suyogexplore  
Trans Harbour Drone    / @imdroneman  
Mumbai walking tour    / @keeziwalks  
Container port    / @apmterminals  
Mazagon Dock submarine builders    • MAZAGON DOCK LIMITED  - Corporate  
Mumbai walking streets    / @ladmob  
Mumbai 1973    • Enchanting India Mumbai 1973  
How to build a subway in a crowded city    • How to Build a Subway in One of the W...  
Making of Mumbai’s first underground metro
   • Making of Mumbai's first Underground ...  
Metro New Lines    • MUMBAI METRO NEW LINE - 2A & 7 - Phas...  
Tunnel Boring Machine breakthrough    • TBM Breakthrough, BKC to Vidhynagari,...  
Metro Line 3 walkthrough
   • Metro Line 3 Mumbai | Mumbai First Un...  
Trial run first underground metro
   • Watch Trial Run Of Mumbai’s First Und...  
Metro line 3 drone shots
   • Environment protection measures by MMRC  
Mumbai traffic and tuk tuk rickshaw drivers
   • Mumbai's Overcharging Tuk-Tuk Drivers...  
Drive in Bandra
   • Saturday Afternoon Drive in Bandra - ...  
Oval Maidan aerial
   • Oval Maidan | South Mumbai  
Coastal road drone and animations
   • #RiseUpMumbai  
Coastal road    • Sneak Peek Into Mumbai’s Ambitious Co...  
Sanjay Ghandi National Park    • Sanjay Gandhi National Park - SGNP Mu...  
Tearing down Seattle’s Alaskan Viaduct
   • Tearing down the Alaskan Way Viaduct ...  
Seattle drive into tunnel    • Seattle SR-99 Tunnel -- First Day of ...  
Dharavi slum inside look    • Inside World's LARGEST SLUM: Dharavi,...  
Trans harbour link
   • What's Unique About The Mumbai Trans ...  
Navi Mumbai airport
   • GVK’s vision of the Navi Mumbai Airpo...  
Planes    • Mumbai Airport | Morning Plane Spotti...  
Boat ride at Gorai creek
   • Boat Ride at Gorai Creek  

This is Mumbai, the transforming megacity. Surrounded by the Arabian sea, Mumbai - which means “mother” in Marathi, the local language - is the heart of the state of Maharashtra.

Narendra Modi

0:00 Welcome to Mumbai
0:37 Origins of the Megacity
1:58 Port of Mumbai
2:25 Immigration overwhelms infrastructure
3:30 Mumbai Metro
6:30 City layout
7:08 Coastal road
9:30 Seri-Worli connector
10:17 Trans Harbour Link
10:53 Navi Mumbai International Airport
11:11 Mumbai Metropolitan Region
11:52 The tradeoffs to development: preserving Gorai