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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>
====Maps====
*[https://www.loc.gov/item/2015588078/ Map of the native town of Bombay, completed to 1855] Library of Congress.*Rootsweb Historical Maps of India (by Ian Poyntz)**[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/Bombay1893.jpg Bombay 1893]**[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/bombay_1909.jpg Bombay 1909]**[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/Bombay1924.jpg Bombay 1924]
====Historical images online====
