City building and regime creation in the peripheries for Mumbai

In terms of the splintering of cities, it is important to understand contemporary urbanization processes, speculative real estate development, and ways to challenge these via new modes of politics. This case study analyzes the impacts of largely ‘illegal’ city building, on different groups of people within the city, particularly relating to spatial (in)justice and violence. The landscape of the periphery is traced at two levels: at the level of the region– viewing Vasai-Virar’s position within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), and within the city itself, covering a range of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ types of settlements across multiple territories.