Urban Renewal: A Need to Redefine and Rebuild the Old City Area – Case of Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali and Mira Bhayander

Urban renewal initiatives play an important role in achieving the targets of making human settlements and cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. Urban Renewal in India is a comprehensive presentation of strategic, technical and theoretical aspects of urban areas. ‘Urban Renewal’ refers redevelopment of urban areas to ensure quality of life, growth of infrastructure, promotion of tourism. The paper describes the tools or approaches for urban renewal namely slum clearance, redevelopment and rehabilitation. To describe the urban renewal scenario in Mumbai Metropolitan Region cases of Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali and Mira Bhayandar are described.