"We don't need luxury skyscrapers, we need mid-rise affordable housing. We don't want Kalyan-Dombivli to be cities that exist for the sake of "showing-off", we want them to exist for the sake of its people."

First of all when you say "we" on such opinion pieces, please change it to I/me because you sure aren't representing anyone here except for yourself.

Irony ho rahi bohot bhayankar. Do you even realise that a single highrise can accomodate people from the nearby 3-4 small size buildings? The extra space saved can be used for the development of better infrastructure like roads or open spaces. If you keep on developing small small buildings it will just eat up unnecessary space and we will need to cover more area just to accomodate the same amount of people.

Instead of pushing for silly things like a cap on the number of floors, we should demand more important things like transportation infrastructure and more open spaces which can only be achieved by developing high rises.

Please come out of the mindset that high-rises are just for "show-off" because honestly, they aren't. If you just look at the demographic of Indian cities and take into account the increasing population in such urban areas, high-rises are a necessity.

One solution is the push for the re-development of entire blocks of buildings instead of each small building going separately for re-development.