Will Mumbai survive this onslaught of real estate and road-building propaganda? Are we ready to face the coastal inundation due to climate change, as predicted by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its reports? Is all the real estate being put up to meet the housing demands of the large number of people in this city who live in squalid conditions— in slums or on footpaths? Or is it adding to the global carbon emissions through the embodied carbon of cement and steel, especially as the city managers envision and announce a Net Zero City by 2030?
Dr Roshni Udyavar Yehuda is a practising environmental architect whose core specialisation is energy efficiency and environmental design of buildings. She is the Director of Roshni Udyavar & Associates [RU&A] and President of the Institute of Environmental Architecture and Research (IEAR), and has more than 20 years of experience in this field.)