Remember Delhi 10 years back..it was unliveable...apart from the South and Lutyens.
North has Civil Lines and Model town which are posh...
West has Punjabi Bagh which is posh
South is Posh
Gurgaon and Noida are posh now
East is pretty unposh never been there though
Central is posh..
Old Delhis Darya Ganj at one time was very posh.. now its pretty rundown..
Mumbai has only fallen behind in the recent past, mostly because Delhi is suddenly looking better in comparison.
Mumbai still is the entertainment, trade and financial headquarters of India but and juxtaposition is too intense in Mumbai from what I have heard...
Its really starting to go vertical now...mostly because there is literally no more space to build.
So most new projects are 40+ stories, and 4-5 are 80+ .
in the next 5-10 years, Mumbai will be the only city with something resembling a skyline.
Don't worry NCR will have more than Mumbai's...
Sea facing cities usually grow vertically...
Delhi had luxury of space so there was no need for vertical growth and there was a legislation against tall buildings in Delhi (I think something to do with monuments or something) but real estate prices and scarcity of land have necessitated vertical growth now but still I don't think 80+ floors buildings will be built in Delhi...
A list with pics of some hundred skyscrapers of Delhi
Highrises of NCR (Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad etc.) - SkyscraperCity
"The National Capital Region's (NCR) skyline is all set to change. With height restrictions giving way, Delhi and its suburbs are all set to grow vertically providing the much needed residential and commercial space.
A 32-storey building in Noida's Sector-44 is called Celeste and when complete, it will be the tallest building in North India.
So far, top honours for sky-scraping have belonged to the Vikas Minar in Central Delhi and to the DLF Square Plaza in Gurgaon.
Several high-rise projects have been cleared by Noida and Delhi. Height restrictions have been removed from 33 mts for residential buildings and 37 mts for commercial buildings in Delhi
''In the planners mind, Delhi has always been conceived of as a low rise city. This was possible because Delhi had vast expanse of land to expand unlike Mumbai,'' said Manoj Mathur, School of Planning and Architecture.
After Mumbai, Gurgaon has the maximum number of tall buildings. It has as many as 150 high rises buildings that are taller than 24 mts.
In comparision, Delhi and Noida together have less than half the number of tall buildings Gurgaon has.
In the next five years, Delhi will get a number of high-rises. Some slated to come up before the Commonwealth Games.
In the new Celeste building at Noida, the two towers would have one apartment per floor.
''The two towers would have one apartment per floor with private elevators opening inside the apartments and would also have an all-weather heated swimming pool on the top floor. We wanted to build a structure that could be identified with the skyline of Noida,'' said Sanjeev Srivastava, MD, Assotech.
But starting at Rs 4 crores, these four-bedroom luxury apartments would cater only to the select few. Delhi is all set to get a 17-storey tall residential group housing society in Rohini. "
NDTV.com: High rises on Delhi skyline
4 crores for a 4 bedroom appartment in Noida... damn Delhi is expensive
PS: has anyone flown over Dwarka?? It looks out of this world.!!