Author: Ruth Jeyaveeran
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: mumbai, road
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618434194
ISBN-13: 9780618434190
Along the road to Mumbai, Shoba and her monkey, Fuzzy Patel, make many new friendsmysterious monks, a curious camel, and a snake with a sensitive stomach, just to name a few. Shoba and Fuzzy are on their way to a top-secret monkey wedding. But you shouldn’t expect an invitation. According to Fuzzy, it will be the most boring wedding in the history of the universe. But magical things can happen on the road to Mumbaiand when trouble threatens to ruin the big event, unexpected friends come to the rescue.In vivid paintings filled with color and light (and more than one uninvited guest!), R
Author: Annapurna Shaw
Publisher: Orient Longman
Keywords: mumbai, navi, making
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2004-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 8125026002
ISBN-13: 9788125026006
This book uses the case of the Navi Mumbai urban project to bring out many of the problems inherent in the urbanisation process and in the nature of urban policy-making in post-colonial India. It illustrates how even a new city, built from scratch, is riddled with social and economic contradictions - well-planned and serviced areas coexisting with clums and shanties. Navi Mumbai is being used as a model for building new towns outside other cities in India. This detailed case study of Navi Mumbai reveals the strengths and weaknesses of this model of urbanisation and indicates the policy dire
Author: Amelia Thomas
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, regional, mumbai, amp, goa
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 174104894X
ISBN-13: 9781741048940
Author: Rashmi Uday Singh
Publisher: Popular Prakashan Ltd
Keywords: night, mumbai
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8179910008
ISBN-13: 9788179910009
This book is an intimate guide taking you through all kinds of nightspots and eating places of Mumbai.
Author: Ministry of Finance
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: centre, financial, international, mumbai
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0761936300
ISBN-13: 9780761936305
Most financial services are now tradable across borders in an extremely competitive environment with buyers and sellers around the world having a choice of procuring services from competing international financial centres. The global international financial services (IFS) market in the 21st century is one in which competition is driven by rapid innovation in financial products, services, instruments, structures, and arrangements to accommodate and manage myriad requirements, risks and a ceaseless quest for cost reduction. Competitive advantage in IFS provision depends on seven key factors: - A
Author: Murali Ranganathan
Publisher: Anthem Press
Keywords: south, asian, studies, anthem, biography, narayan, mumbai, urban, govind
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1843313057
ISBN-13: 9781843313052
The expansion of Mumbai over the last four centuries has been documented in great detail by both contemporary writers and historians, yet this narrative stands out as an alternative, unique and authentic voice. Quite simply, it is a book about the city like no other. Govind Narayan’s ‘Mumbaiche Varnan’ was the first full account of Mumbai in any language, written just before the explosive growth and renovation of the city. Guiding the reader on a tour of the sights and sounds of an emerging city struggling to shake off colonialism and wrestling with the formation of its own budd
Author: Vinit Mukhija
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: soas, king, studies, development, geography, india, mumbai, developers, slum, demolition, redevelopment, squatters
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-07
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754619109
ISBN-13: 9780754619109
In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). Based on demolishing existing slums and rebuilding on the same sites at a higher density, it is very distinct from the two prevalent conventional strategies with respect to slums in developing countries - slum clearance and slum upgrading. So why did the slum redevelopment strategy originate in Mumbai, and how did it do so? What were the key issues in the implementation of such a project? This critical volume responds to these questions by closely
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