City On The Water (1975)
Director: Charles M. Correa; Cinematographer: Purush Baokar; Editor: A. Habib
Duration: 00:16:34; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 223.208; Saturation: 0.116; Lightness: 0.377; Volume: 0.141; Cuts per Minute: 8.926; Words per Minute: 69.480
Summary: A documentary by architect Charles Correa on planning of the city of New Bombay to manage escalating population in an over-crowded Bombay. Using maps and other data, the film looks at solutions developed by urban planners for the provision of less congested living options for the constantly moving work force of the city.
The film is about typical urban problems faced by the city of Bombay as its population has grown and how the idea of developing Bombay evolved - the new city of 2 million that was being planned and developed across the harbour. The film speaks about the Thane creek bridge that had been opened to traffic. It shows development of the industrial belt near Thane employing over 20,000 persons at that time, Konkan Bhavan for housing various state government departments, etc.
Commentary Words: Charles M. Correa
Commentary Spoken: Pearl Padamsee, Gerson Da'cuhna
In 1975, when the architect and urbanist Charles Correa was trying to sell the idea of a radical Bombay Plan to the authorities, he took to the cinema to make this point. He made a film, in which he explicitly invoked the one thing only the cinema seemingly could do: a fear of the crowd.
Crowds and Power 6
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An animation illustrating the logic for the further expansion of Bombay linked to the development of new Bombay
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The apprehensions about the New Bombay plan being fully realised were there from the beginning itself.
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