In many ways, Kolkata is a victim of its own success.
Such has been population growth in India’s ‘first city’ since colonial times that where to house people has been a perennial problem. It is now vital for Kolkata’s 15 million residents that planning for future growth takes into account the threat of climate change.
The city has spread so far from its original boundaries and chewed up so much surrounding land that the only way to go now is up. That is, high-rise.
