Don't let G-South ward's high-rises fool you. The ward typifies the two worlds the city straddles - the fast-changing skyline comprising posh residential and commercial localities of Worli, Prabhadevi and Mahalaxmi, and the middle-class roots of Parel, Lalbaug, BDD Chawl and Worli gaothan. But scratch the veneer of 'sophistication' and you'll hit a raw nerve - unchecked real estate development, rising pollution, choc-a-block traffic, dug-up roads, open gutters and encroachments.

Roads in Parel and Worli are often dug up, and tend to stay that way for long. Pic/Datta Kumbhar