For seven years, architect Robert Stephens trawled through newspaper archives, obscure journals and old books looking for projects that never got off the ground in Mumbai. He found no dearth of unrealised dreams — an 1887 idea for a lake at Mahalaxmi, Jamshetji Tata’s idea to make Versova into a canal-connected Venice and a 1960s plan for multistorey parking at Horniman Circle. Stephen’s ‘Bombay Imagined: An Illustrated History of The Unbuilt City’ is a compilation of 200 deas, offering a new perspective on the Mumbai dream. An American settled here, Stephen spoke to Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar:
Q: What inspired you to look at Mumbai’s unbuilt projects?
A: I found a proposal by Arthur Crawford for a 400-acre park in Mahalaxmi, and I was intrigued. I had a feeling there would be more ideas, more schemes. So I started searching. And then it was an avalanche.
Q: Which of the unbuilt projects stood out to you?
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