Bridges To Somewhere

摘要

In 1571 the Mughal emperor Akbar moved his court from Agra to Fatehpur Sikri, where he built a sandstone palace in the middle of nowhere. In the 1980s a similar urge gripped K.P. Singh, chairman of dlf, India's biggest developer. His father-in-law had built 23 neighbourhoods in Delhi. Mr Singh started work on a new city ten miles away, in the wheat fields of Gurgaon.rnNowhere in India embodies the country's aspirations as starkly as the town he founded, dlf's concoction has attracted copycat developers and almost 150 of the world's Fortune 500 companies. In the Ara-lias, the city's most exclusive apartment block, 6,000 square feet can cost up to 100m rupees ($2m). That buys a view of Gurgaon's golf course, judged India's best, where members stir their fresh lime sodas with swizzle sticks shaped like long irons.