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Originally Posted by isaidso
They just don't have that luxury. You're obviously not familiar with how scarce land is in that city. If Mumbai has any hope in hell of housing their people, they need to build exceedingly tall. In the developing world, high rises are the only sensible option for urban housing. Why do you think Sao Paulo looks like it does? Mumbai's population increases by 450,000 people every year. Your expanse of 5-10 storey proposals? Where are they going to build that, in the sea?
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No, what they don't have the luxury to do is build expensive skyscrapers when 60% of the city's inhabitants live in slums. What do you propose to do with the poor? Sweep them across the river into the countryside to put up luxe highrises in their place?
Besides, now you're being disingenuous, conveniently changing the subject from Mumbai's planned and underway supertalls to Sao Paulo's scores and scores of 12-30-storey residentials.
That is a better plan for a place teeming with so many poor.