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Shanghai and Mumbai can learn from each other
April 20, 2010, Tuesday
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MUMBAI and Shanghai have a lot to learn from each other in their efforts to modernize.
Just as Shanghai is China's financial hub, Mumbai is India's financial capital.
Following many years' urbanization, Mumbai, India's largest city with a population of 15 million, is also its richest with an annual GDP of about US$50 billion.
Professor Saroj Vermaof of the University of Mumbai said Mumbai has well protected its old buildings as it modernizes, and visitors receive a striking impression of many buildings more than 100 years old neatly juxtaposed with modern buildings.
Mumbai has many merits in addition to historic preservation. For example, if any resident wants to cut a big tree in his or her property, local government approval is needed.
Moreover, the satellite towns around Mumbai will be enlarged, offering more job opportunities and thus reducing the pressure and burden on Mumbai.
But there're still problems. Unlike Shanghai, over half the population of Mumbai live in slums, many of them in or near the heart of the city, while the Mumbai government lacks funds to remove these slums, and the crowded residents suffer shortages of water and electricity.
(Xinhua. Shanghai Daily condensed and edited the article.)
Just as Shanghai is China's financial hub, Mumbai is India's financial capital.
Following many years' urbanization, Mumbai, India's largest city with a population of 15 million, is also its richest with an annual GDP of about US$50 billion.
Professor Saroj Vermaof of the University of Mumbai said Mumbai has well protected its old buildings as it modernizes, and visitors receive a striking impression of many buildings more than 100 years old neatly juxtaposed with modern buildings.
Mumbai has many merits in addition to historic preservation. For example, if any resident wants to cut a big tree in his or her property, local government approval is needed.
Moreover, the satellite towns around Mumbai will be enlarged, offering more job opportunities and thus reducing the pressure and burden on Mumbai.
But there're still problems. Unlike Shanghai, over half the population of Mumbai live in slums, many of them in or near the heart of the city, while the Mumbai government lacks funds to remove these slums, and the crowded residents suffer shortages of water and electricity.
(Xinhua. Shanghai Daily condensed and edited the article.)
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