
BOMBAY IMAGINED: An Illustrated History of the Unbuilt City (Second Edition)
$131
| Author: | Robert Stephens |
| ISBN 13: | 9789334439427 |
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Pages: | 464pp., 19x28cm |
| Published On: | 1st December 2025 |
| Subject: | Art and Archaeology/Architecture |
About the Book
CONTENTS: Introduction, Illustrations, Projects: * Bombay, * The Great Channel, * New Town Wall, * Sea Outfall, * Neat's Tongue Reservoir, * St. John's Church, * Fort Walls Preservation, * Elephanta Tavern and Ballroom, * Malabar Hill Cemetery, * Well Pavilions, * Reservoir Master Plan, * Colaba Channel Docks, * Stone Pier, * Salf Water Scour, * Mechanics\' Buildings, * Lift Wheels, * Back Bay Reclamation and Docks, * Back Bay Crescent and Promenade, * Screw Pile Pier, * Wet Dock on the Flats, * Elbow Room, * Trombay Creek Reclamation, * Back Bay Reclamation, * Luminous Cremation, * Frere Town Trenches, * European General Hospital, * European General Hospital, * Caranja Island Quarry-Prison, * Back Bay Cable-Wall, * Footpaths, * St. Thomas Gothic Cathedral, * Versovah Suburbs, * Fort and Mazagon Police Courts, * City of the Dead, * Elelphanta Island Docks and Township, * Iron Kiosk, * Bombay School of Art, * Bacilli Blow-Pipes, * Bombay Park, * Custom's House, * The Greatest Sewer, * Deepwater Dock, * Wet Dock, * Reclamation Docks, * Elphinstone Bunder Goods Terminus, 8 BBCI and GIP Railway Link, * Canery Reservoir, * Shewla Reservoir, * The Bombay Canal, * Bombay Sailors' Home, * Underground Railway, * Coastal Road, * Mumba Devi Temple-Tank Park, * Kamun Project, * Butcher's Island Sanatorium, * Sewage Irrigation, * Bombay Stock Exchange, * Mahalaxmi Lake, * Bombay Municipal Offices, * Chowpatty Cliff Zoo, * Oriental Venice, * Air-Conditioning, * Bombay Cathedral, * Mahim Bay Reclamation, * Colaba Reclamation, * Bulk Oil Pier, * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, * Prince of Wales Museum of Western India Master Plan, * Chowpatty Reclamation, * New Bombay, * Tramway Extensions, * Marble Gateway, * Gateway of India Avenue, * Bandra Gateway and Civic Centre, * Bamboo House, * East Colaba Development, * Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, * Trombay Wet Dock, * Dharavi Development Scheme, * Worli Point, * Back Bay Layout, * Bombay 1971, * BDD Chawl Sky-views, * Back Bay International Airport, * Churchgate Reclamation Triangular Garden, * Marine Aquarium, * Hygiene Museum, * Chawl Remodelling, * Pet Cemetery, * Dharavi Clean-Up, * Undedrground Stalls, * Collective Living Superstructure, * Love Grove Sewage Scheme, * Master Street Plan, * Dharavi Estate Neighbourhood Unit, * Coastal Townships, * Social Housing, * Tube Railway, * Bellasis Road Park, * Express Highway Green Belts, * Goral International Airport, * Leper Island, * Banganga Tank Children's Park, * Bhandup Industrial Estate, * Air India Tower, * Amusement Piedr, * Malabar Hill Ropeway, * Cosmopolis, * Uran Link, * Bombay Hilton, * Horniman Circle Parking Lot, * Horniman Circle Cultural Complex, * Dahisar Lake, * Deonar Aerodrome, * Underground Railway, * West Island Freeway, * Nepean Sea Road Foreshore Laytout, * New Bombay, * Twin City Master Plan, * Skywalk, * Churchgate Subway, * Indian Express Office Complex, * Hawker Platforms, * Visvesvaraya Centre, *102-Storeyed Skyscraper, * Flora Fountain Underground Parking Lot, * VT Foot Overbridge, * Santacruz International Terminal Terminal, * Vehicle Terrace, * Car-Free Bombay, * Chowpatty Foot Overbridge Ramp, * Squatter House, * Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, * Back Bay Waterfront, * Traffic Management Plan, * Kamathipura Urban Renewal Scheme, * Deonar City Park, * Museum of Modern Art, * Indira Gandhi Statue, * Western Waterfront Development, * Dinshaw Manockjee Petit Patho-Bacteriological Laboratory, * Nariman Point Government Complex, * Marine Drive Restoration and Beautification, * Oval Maidan Underground Parking Lot, * Mandwa-Rewas International Airport, * Mill Land Development Plan, * Parallel Runway, * Mumbai Art and Craft Centre, * Worli-Nariman Point Sea Link, * Peddar Road Flyover, * Wankhede Stadium, * Taraporevala Mansion Tower, * Underground Tunnel, * Banganga Crematorium Revitalisation, * Multimodal Transportation Hub, * Gateway of India Underpass, * Dharavi Redevelopment Project, * Dharavi Master Plan, * Zaveri Bazaar Parking Towers, * Nariman Point Redeveopment Project, * India Tower, * India Tower, * Racecourse Y-Bridge, * Dharavi UN World Heritage Site, * Offshorfe Airport, * Vulture Aviary, * Juhu Stilted Runway, * The Slow Ride, * Jamshed Bhabha Theatre Office, * Fort Management Plan, * The Esplanade Project, * Bombay Greenway, * Dadar Station Roof Plaza, * Malad Creek Promenade, * Saat Rasta, * Mumbai Park, * Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial, * Sudarshan Wheel, * Eastern Waterfront, * Sassoon Dock Redevelopment, * Mumbai City Museum, * Mumbai City Museum, * Mumbai City Museum, * Juhu Beach Expansion, * Container Skyscraper , * VJTI Hostel, * Multipurpose Complex, * Eastern Waterfron, * Prince's Dock Marina, * The Golden Fiber Bridge, * Maharashtra Nature Park Makeover and Pedestrian Bridge, * Structured Symbiosis, * New Worli Koliwada , Worli Koliwada Reincarnate, * MS Ali Road, * The Urban Equator, * The Estate, * Coastal Road Realignment, * Mumbai Coastal Forest, Acknowledgements, Indexes.Since his move to Mumbai in 2007, Robert Stephens has cultivated a passion for rare and second-hand books with a focus on the city. What began as a meandering journey through archival texts to quench an innate curiosity transformed in 2014 when he opened the Professional Papers on Indian Engineering, published in 1869. Sandwiched between countless projects from the 19th century, Arthur Crawford's grand (albeit unrealised) plan for a 400-acre park at Mahalaxmi transcended the mundane aspirations of his contemporaries, despite being relegated to the pages of history for more than 150 years. The unexpected discovery ignited a seven-year-long exploration, leading Robert to scour nearly five dozen archives, libraries and studios around the world in search of radical ideas for Mumbai that never came to fruition.
