Urban infra movers and planners looked into the future as ECOM, a global infrastructure firm, and Asia Society, a non-profit institution, brought Mumbai to the forefront of their global conversation on cities, at a session called 'Imagine Mumbai: In Search of New Ground' at a Lower Parel hotel on Friday afternoon.

After the chai began the charcha with a number crunching introduction by Sean Chiao, president, Asia Pacific, AECOM, who said, "By 2060 the projected population of India will be 1.7 billion people so this means the country will have 18 per cent of the world's population but just 2.4 per cent of the world's total land mass. Mumbai is projected to have 42 million people by 2060 which will be higher than the entire population of Canada. Does the city have enough land to accommodate future growth?"