Daniel KhentBombay built the world's second largest Art Deco district in the 1930s, blending streamlined modernism with Indian cultural markers into a uniquely Bombay architecture. https://www.artdecomumbai.com/research/bombays-transition-to-modernity-the-dawn-of-art-deco-in-bombay/ #ArtDeco #Bombay #1930s
Bombay’s transition to Modernity- The Dawn of Art Deco in Bombay - Art Deco
The urban development of Bombay as a capitalist port city, was a result of the distinct location of the western Indian Colony. Sociologically, the early Victorian Bombay emerged as a capitalist city with class differentiation determining the spatial pattern of the city. The colonial / indigenous spatial dualism was just an outcome of this urban