Thursday, October 7, 2010

Landor Office - Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

28 Dr E Borges Road, Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
               The actual site where the Landor Office is located is specifically in Lower Parel in Mumbai, India. It’s an area where many hospitals, educational buildings, and the old mill work companies are located. Such buildings include the Gandhi Hospital, Morarjee Gokuldas Mills, the United India Mills, Sakarbai Hospital for Animals, Collaborative Architecture, Dr. Sirodhkar High School, and The College of Physicians & Surgeons. It is a very populated and cramped area indicating that there is only a limited amount of space that can be worked with. In addition if any new construction were to happen in the surrounding area, it would probably be the improvements to the closed down mill work company buildings. However, since those areas are being recycled by just being reused, no major territory changes shall affect the Landor Office vicinity.

Parel, Mumbai
           Mumbai, or formerly known as Bombay, is identified as the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is a city with approximately 14 million people, making it the second most populous city in the world, but the most populous city in India. Its neighboring urban areas include the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane. 


















           Mumbai lies on the west coast of India. Many parts of the city lie just above sea level, with elevations ranging from 33 ft to 49 ft. The city also lies on a seismically active zone. The area is classified as a Seismic Zone III region, meaning that an earthquake of up to a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter-scale may be expected.            
            Mumbai has a tropical climate. It is made up of a tropical wet and dry climate, with seven months of dryness and a vast amount of rainfall in July. The cold season begins in the month of December and lasts until the month of February. It’s followed by the summer season lasting from March to June. The south-west monsoon season occurs during the month of June and lasts until the end of September. The post-monsoon season lasts from October until the month of November.
           The city of Mumbai consists of two distinct regions: Mumbai City district and Mumbai Suburban district. The city district region is also commonly referred to as the Island City or South Mumbai. It is a city that is mixed with many cultures and a blend of traditional festivals, foods, music, and theatres due to the city being a major trading center. In this region you find many suburbs such as Parel or Lower Parel which is considered the central part of Mumbai. Recently, Parel is home to many huge enterprises such as new five star hotels and well-known hospitals that are replacing the old mill work companies that used to make up most of the suburban area. Mumbai suffers from some major urbanization problems such as poverty and unemployment, poor public health and poor civic and educational standards for a large section of the population. The city offers little space for sometimes expensive housing which are far from workplaces more than half the time. This requires long commutes and overcrowded transit areas. However, residents are now pushing into the lower parts of Mumbai around the Parel area. With the new additions arriving to Parel, it has become an area where lower middle class and higher middle class can live adjacent to one another. 
Map of India (Red = Maharashtra State)
Map of Maharashtra (Red = City of Mumbai)   
Map of Mumbai & Suburbs (Red = Lower Parel)

Map of Mumbai & Districts

           




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