No Skyscraper, Build Mix Blocks in Bombay': CTBUH

The best and brilliant mind of the building world, including architects, planners, engineers, and builders of global repute recently descended to Bombay to hammer out a solution to the congestion of the metropolitan city by applying their classic and collective building caliber. They were all a part of the World Conference 2010, titled 'Remaking Sustainable Cities in the Vertical Age. The international conference was held in Mumbai in view of its great developmental potential to house a population of over 16 million and almost half of which lives in slums settlements.

The conference, was jointly organized by the Chicago based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Remaking of Mumbai Federation (RoMF), a focus group advocating the redevelopment of pre-1940 structures in the City. The World Conference has been conceived as a networking platform for urban planners and architects to exchange ideas and case studies from across the world as how cities can remake themselves sustainable. In the Bombay conference about 1,150 delegates from 16 countries, 72 global speakers and eminent government officials came together under one roof to discuss way outs to remake cities.