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'Bombay City Improvement Trust' link and info added; 'References' added
Because of the cosmopolitan mix of Bombay Society, it is [[architect]]urally unlike the most of colonial india's neo-classicism; the wealth citizens of Bombay, and the city's [[Public Works Department]] opted for Venetian-Gothic designs with alterations to suit the Indian Climate. Victoria Terminus the station of the GIPR, adorned with Indian motifs represents this patronage. Bombay introduced Modernist architecture to India seeing new concrete construction methods as an inclusive architecture available to India's masses in the lead up to Independence.
=Bombay City Improvement Trust==
The [[Bombay City Improvement Trust Railways|Bombay City Improvement Trust]] was created on December 9, 1898, in response to the Bobbay plague epidemic of 1896. It was created through an Act of the Parliament. The Municipal Corporation and the government handed over all vacant lands to this body. The Trust undertook a host of measures to improve sanitary and living conditions in the city. The planned opening up of suburbs was due to the Trust <ref name=Wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_City_Improvement_Trust Wikipedia "Bombay City Improvement Trust"]; Retrieved 14 Mar 2017</ref>
The Trust widened roads in the central, crowded, parts of the town. A new east-west road, the Princess Street, was constructed to channel the sea air into the centre of the crowded residential areas. The north-south Sydenham Road (now Mohammedali Road) was also constructed with this end in view <ref name=Wiki/>.
The Dadar-Matunga-Wadala-Sion suburban development was started in 1899 with the express purpose of relieving congestion to the south. Well-laid out plots, with mixed land-use patterns marked these sections. Completed in 1900, access to these parts were through the newly completed Mohammedali Road <ref name=Wiki/>.
The Trust was later merged with the Municipal Corporation and known as the Bombay Development Department/Directorate.
==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA281 The cantonment at Colaba Bombay] , page 281 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862'' Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/444/mode/2up Bombay] page 445 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
== References ==
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