Mumbai: India's Transforming MEGACITY

Опубликовано: 05 Декабрь 2025
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Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITY is home to five transportation megaprojects under construction throughout this city of 25 million. Subscribe for more    / thedailyconversation  
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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.

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 in Pr...  
Megacity from slums to skyscrapers - DW
   • Video  
Metropolis by Ben Wilson https://www.amazon.com/Metropolis-His...
Mumbai Metropolitan Region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_...
The Massive Coastal Road That's Dividing Mumbai    • The Massive Coastal Road That's Dividing M...  

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

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 World'...  
Making of Mumbai’s first underground metro
   • Making of Mumbai's first Underground Metro  
Metro New Lines    • MUMBAI METRO NEW LINE - 2A & 7 - Phase 2 -...  
Tunnel Boring Machine breakthrough    • TBM Breakthrough, BKC to Vidhynagari, Mumb...  
Metro Line 3 walkthrough
   • Metro Line 3 Mumbai | Mumbai First Undergr...  
Trial run first underground metro
   • Watch Trial Run Of Mumbai’s First Undergro...  
Metro line 3 drone shots
   • Environment protection measures by MMRC  
Mumbai traffic and tuk tuk rickshaw drivers
   • Mumbai's Overcharging Tuk-Tuk Drivers (How...  
Drive in Bandra
   • Saturday Afternoon Drive in Bandra - 4K | ...  
Oval Maidan aerial
   • Oval Maidan | South Mumbai  
Coastal road drone and animations
   • #RiseUpMumbai  
Coastal road    • Sneak Peek Into Mumbai’s Ambitious Coastal...  
Sanjay Ghandi National Park    • Sanjay Gandhi National Park - SGNP Mumbai  
Tearing down Seattle’s Alaskan Viaduct
   • Tearing down the Alaskan Way Viaduct and t...  
Seattle drive into tunnel    • Seattle SR-99 Tunnel -- First Day of Tolli...  
Dharavi slum inside look    • Inside World's LARGEST SLUM: Dharavi, Mumb...  
Trans harbour link
   • What's Unique About The Mumbai Trans Harbo...  
Navi Mumbai airport
   • GVK’s vision of the Navi Mumbai Airport (E...  
Planes    • Mumbai Airport | Morning Plane Spotting 20...  
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