Mumbai: Reading Group
Fall term, Block L
W 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Professor Gerald Frug
1 classroom credit LAW-44065A Fall
Mumbai, formerly called Bombay, is the largest city in India, with a population of more than 12 million people. (The metropolitan area, with more than twice the city's population, is the sixth most populous in the world.) The city has an intense version of water and sanitation, transportation, economic development, land use planning, corruption, inter-group conflict. This reading group will focus on a particular angle of vision toward theses problems: what government organization (the nation? the state of the Maharashtra in which Mumbai is located? the city government? public authorities or corporations?) is empowered to do anything to address these problems? The subject is too vast for a reading group. But we will read material that introduces the city, its problems, and the organizations designed to work on them. For those of us (like me) interested in local government in general and local government law in particular, Mumbai is a good case study. If progress in the organization of urban governance can be made there, it can be made anywhere.
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