Santacruz public space

a community group in santacruz won the urban age award for their work in upgrading the area through collective action. this included garbage sorting, toilet facilities and a playground upgradation. we met above the toilet where their office is and took a walk around the playground where they hope to put the windfall of money to some good use. in the middle of the playground is a stage with green rooms waiting for a restoration project. when we arrived it was being used by the young men of the area as a cricket pitch. so much more alive and nicer than the terrible barbed wire that surrounded the reliance sponsored children’s park and nana naani park nearby. the generation gap manifests itself as a contest in claiming space.