Railway Revival. Splintering Urbanism and the Mumbai Metro. The spatial development of railinfrastructure in Mumbai from an Actor-Network perspective

Abstract

This thesis is about the spatial development of Mumbai with special attention to the development of railinfrastructure in the city. One of the case studies is the VAG-metro corridor, the first metroline of the ambitious Mumbai Metro Project. Scientists like Graham & Marvin write about splintering urbanism and the role of selective infrastructure networks and privatisation in this proces of a changing spatial form of cities. In this thesis the assumptions and effects of splintering urbanism are challenged and put in a different perspective for the case of Mumbai using Actor-Network Theory as theoretical and methodological framework.