New Mumbai is one of the highly planned cities in India and there is no second thought on that.
When safety of life in a particular city is a question, we have to conclude that almost all major cities in India are equally unsafe.A townplanner cannot do anything about that.He can plan for a good ecosystem, he can plan for beauty in design, he can plan for transportation, he can plan for easy access to main areas, he can plan for all essential feautures.But he cannot plan for a city safe from Dadas, hooligans and politicians.
If New Mumbai is terribly bothered by Thackeray, Salman, a 1000 gundaas, and 10000 politicians, we have to blame ourselves.Whenever these people wanted to get into action, we all played safe and ran into our houses.This encouraged these people and they are multiplying rapidly today, just because of our fear, diversity and negligence.So we are to take blame and the townplanner is not responsible for designing New Mumbai for feared people.If safety is a matter of concern, unbrave people are inturn a matter of concern
If only 25% of the population of people in New Mumbai rise in unison against the goondas, they would be the feared persons and if we start multiplying they would detiorate within time.