This chapter first covers two landmark episodes and their enduring effects on Bombay: the 1982 general strike of 250,000 textile workers, and the 1992–3 riots that saw death and destruction on a scale not witnessed in the city’s history. These events reflected long-standing spatial repertoires of contention. The end of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic transformation in urban political geography. Contentious politics, once marked by large-scale mobilizations and claims of urban citizenship, gave way to markedly different patterns of contestation. Struggles for jobs and housing, once based on neighborhoods, occupations, and other social identities, narrowed dramatically in scope, taking form as households or small residential communities making claims to housing, property, land, service provision, etc. Land use regulations in 1991 gave the state government the authority to allocate large tracts of industrial land to property developers for commercial use. A state-level policy gave property developers an incentive to build housing for slum residents in exchange for rights to develop commercially profitable residential units that exceeded limits on building heights.