Squatters as Developers?: Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay).  Why and how did this strategy originate in Mumbai?  What were the key issues in the project’s implementation?  This critical volume responds to these questions by closely examining one particular redevelopment project: the Markandeya Co-operative Housing Society (MCHS).