Wired News: Visionaries Float Big Ideas: “Author and journalist Suketu Mehta, whose first book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, described his father’s native city Mumbai (Bombay) as ‘the future of urban civilization on the planet, God help us.’ ”
Mumbai is the most densely populated region of the planet. At 45,000 people per square kilometer, Mumbai contains more than seven times the concentration of humanity than does the bustling city of Singapore (6000 per square kilometer).