Although invited by numerous developers to participate in the controversial redevelopment of India’s most notorious Dharavi slums, the masterplan team cut its own path to advocate a less divisive solution. The key: Incremental and inclusive retrofit that while improving living conditions for over 1.3 million migrants to Mumbai, maintained economic life and spaces that contributes upward of 6% of the city’s GDP. Developers get to bid for transit oriented sites to support the evolution.